TJP Interviews Sister Jean on God, Faith, Basketball, Jesuit Values, and More

You may have seen her on tv or trending on social media. Now you can watch Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain of Loyola-Chicago’s men’s basketball team, talk about her vocation, faith, Jesuit values, basketball, and more:


At America, millennial Catholic Zac Davis has written about what you don’t know about Loyola’s Sister Jean:

Sister Jean is a celebrity of the highest degree around campus. She attends everything: orientations, games, plays, rallies, vigils, meetings and Mass. She does all of this—well into her 90s—with the joy of the Gospel. And though a recent hospitalization has placed her in a wheelchair for now, she had been as ambulatory as the athletes she ministers to.