{"id":332703,"date":"2025-10-10T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/332703\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:25:12","slug":"sister-jean-beloved-chaplain-for-loyola-chicago-basketball-team-dies-at-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/332703\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Jean, beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago basketball team, dies at 106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team, has died at 106. <\/p>\n<p>The university announced her death on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>She became an international celebrity during the team&#8217;s 2018 Final Four run and there was even a bobblehead of her likeness. <\/p>\n<p>Health issues led her to step down in August, but she remained an adviser. <\/p>\n<p>Loyola President Mark C. Reed praised her as a source of wisdom and grace for over 60 years. <\/p>\n<p>Sister Jean published a memoir in 2023 sharing life lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team, has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,9025,36188],"class_list":{"0":"post-332703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kansas-city","10":"tag-kansas-city-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115348919037560084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}