{"id":43933,"date":"2014-02-20T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=43933"},"modified":"2014-02-20T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T20:28:49","slug":"rooting-catholic-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/rooting-catholic-olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooting for Catholic Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yuna<\/a>

Yuna Kim in a veil while praying<\/p><\/div>Like most Americans, my husband and I really enjoy watching the Olympics. Like most men and women, I enjoy watching figure skating and he doesn\u2019t care too much about it. But last night he sat and watched and rooted with me for the American women\u2019s figure skaters and a staunchly Catholic Yuna Kim of South Korea.<\/p>\n

At the end of the performances he turned to me and said, \u201cMore than I want the Americans to win, I want the Catholic to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMe too,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n

A few days ago Catholic News Agency<\/a> wrote about Yuna Kim, her faith and all that she has done. I found and read several other articles about Yuna and the more I learned about her, the more I admired her for using her celebrity for such amazing good and being an example of living the Catholic faith. A convert to the Catholic faith in 2008, she is one of the most famous South Koreans. She\u2019s volunteered and donated to Catholics hospitals, universities and other charitable organizations. And though she had retired after winning the gold medal at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, she came back to figure skating to be a positive example to young woman.<\/p>\n

\"Yuna<\/a>

Yuna Kim at Vancouver Olympics<\/p><\/div>Yuna\u2019s an amazing athlete, but also an amazing woman of faith. Watch her closely before her Olympic performance tonight and you might catch her doing the sign of a cross, praying before she performs. Millions of people, including many non-Catholics, worldwide are watching her and she\u2019s not afraid to share this simple symbol of our Catholic faith.<\/p>\n

How many of us are scared to do the same sign of the cross when we are out to eat in a restaurant? How many of us are concerned with giving time or money to the Catholic Church and charitable organizations? And how many of us aren’t examples of living the Catholic faith?<\/p>\n

Yes, even for us American Catholics, Yuna Kim can teach us something about living our Catholic faith publicly.<\/p>\n

And with courage like that, how can you not root for a woman of faith? I\u2019m not rooting for the Americans to lose (they all seem like lovely young woman and Polina Edmunds does attend a Catholic high school), I\u2019m just rooting for a Catholic to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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