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Karen Callaway (photos) | Joyce Duriga (text)

Karen Callaway is the photo editor of Chicago Catholic, the newspaper for the Archdiocese of Chicago. Joyce Duriga is its editor.

I Died with Him’

Karen Callaway (photos) | Joyce Duriga (text) October 6, 2020

One day in 2010 when Deacon LeRoy Gill was visiting Holy Angels Catholic School in Chicago’s violence-prone Bronzeville neighborhood, he noticed a student wearing a small urn around his neck.

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Courtside with Sister Jean

Karen Callaway (photos) | Joyce Duriga (text) February 24, 2018

Rock star. Icon. Living legend. These are just some of the words used to describe Sister Jean Schmidt, the 98-year-old chaplain of Loyola University Chicago’s men’s basketball team and a member of the university’s sports hall of fame.

The 5-foot nun can be seen at every home game for the men’s team. She’s most often decked out in Loyola gear and wearing her trademark maroon Nike tennis shoes with gold laces that have “Sister ” stitched onto the heel of her left shoe and “Jean ” stitched on the right one.

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