Sister Jean on Life, Faith…and Basketball!

| 03/8/2023

By: The Good Newsroom

On this International Women’s Day meet 103-year-old Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, aka the basketball nun!

She is the beloved chaplain for the Loyola Chicago’s men’s basketball team and recently published a memoir, Wake Up with Purpose: What I Have Learned in My First Hundred Years.

Our partners at the Catholic Faith Network have the story:

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