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t NeumANN uNiversity in Aston, Pennsylvania sisters from the university’s sponsoring congregation have served as sports chaplains for many years. the main job of the sister-chaplains is to help players integrate their faith into their lives as athletes. “sometimes people don’t think of sports as being anything more than recreation or a way to make money,” said sister marie therese Carr, SISter MarIe thereSe Carr, O.S.F. with rachel Sokolovich, a O.s.F., chaplain to the women’s 2009 volleyball player at Neumann University. volleyball team at Neumann. “But it’s playing. it’s recreation. And God is in our play and our recreation. the more people realize that and play with the realization that God is in their midst, the better we’ll all be.” Chaplains will also send motivational e-mails to athletes and attend practices to get to know players and make themselves available to them. the sisters who are chaplains at Neumann also take part in an evening of reflection for student athletes. inevitably the chaplains become passionate about their teams. “she’s been our biggest fan the past four years,” said a player on Carr’s volleyball team. —From Good News, a publication of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
“We all have a calling, and to figure out what we are called to has to do with living in such a way that we can hear that message in our lives.” –Jill Kress, I.H.M., VISION Catholic Religious Vocation Network’s SpiritCitings Blog
More Catholics mean more religious vocations—we hope! the number of Catholics in the world is now 1.16 billion, according to the Statistical Yearbook of the Church published by the Vatican in 2010 and comprising information from 2000 through 2008. that represents an 11.54 percent increase. the number of priests worldwide increased slightly over this nine-year period from 405,178 to 409,166. Nonordained religious men decreased from 55,057 in the year 2000 and 54,641 in 2008. Women religious continue to outnumber priests by almost 2 to 1, but their numbers have fallen from 800,000 in 2000 to 740,000 in 2008.
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