America isn’t always great about sports coverage—but college basketball has been an exception, particularly when it comes to March Madness.
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Review: Sister Jean, everyone’s favorite courtside nun
Sister Jean, the beloved chaplain of Loyola Chicago’s men’s basketball team, has 103 years worth of stories to tell in her new memoir.
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Rihanna’s Super Bowl performance put the power of pregnancy center stage
The singer’s halftime performance illuminated some of the tensions experienced by pregnant women in the public eye.
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These Philadelphia nuns are raised up on Eagles’ wings
Many Catholic nuns, in the Philadelphia area as elsewhere, are known to be among the country’s most rabid sports fans.
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Maybe God does care who wins in sports. And what’s wrong with that?
Is it sound theology to think God was on one’s own side after a victory? Who can capture the mind of God; do we know that he doesn’t care who wins a game?
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5 lessons about evangelization from my time as a figure skating coach
Coaching ice skating, in some ways, isn’t far from teaching others about the church: It requires a knowledge of the rules involved, but it also means that I, too, must be willing to learn and listen and respond.
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Podcast: The Catholic nun fighting modern-day slavery at the Super Bowl
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Sister Anne Victory, a board member at U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, who has led efforts against human trafficking for over a decade.
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Heisman winner Caleb Williams inspired by the mantra of his Jesuit education: ‘Men for others’
Whether one cheers for Caleb Williams on the field or cheers against him, it is clear that Jesuit education shaped the quarterback at least as much as he shaped Gonzaga High School’s football program.
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‘Prayer is real’: Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin recovers from near-fatal hit
Demar Hamlin’s remarkable rebound shows “prayer works,” said Brian Cook, director of communications and marketing at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, from which Hamlin graduated in 2016.
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Our ‘thoughts and prayers’ for Damar Hamlin should make us ask: Is it time to stop watching football?
Is the circle of our compassion limited by the suffering we see on prime time national television? Because that is the thing—so much of the suffering that football inflicts is hidden from view.