She found her vocation at Fatima
Get Religion, Julia Duin: There’s no shortage of Olympic-athletes-and-their-faith stories coming out these days and for the most part, they’re decent stories.
There’s Gina Dalfonzo’s wrap-up of Christian athletes at the event for Christianity Today; a piece on Jewish athletes from the Jewish News of Northern California; Al Jazeera’s article on the lack of an Islamic prayer room for Olympians and so on.
But USA Today’s piece on the former speed skater who became a nun isn’t one of those well-written stories. Although datelined South Korea, the locale is in northern England, which throws off most readers at the start. More here.