Articles by Zelda Caldwell
Update: Notre Dame football coach calls conversion to Catholic faith ‘a personal decision’
Sep 16, 2022 / 11:10 amHead football coach Marcus Freeman told members of the press Sept. 15 that he had tried to keep his recent conversion to the Catholic faith under wraps.
UN human rights report on Nicaragua cites ‘attacks on Catholic Church’
Sep 15, 2022 / 09:50 amThe United Nations Human Rights Council released a report Sept. 13 that condemned the regime of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega.
Notre Dame head football coach Marcus Freeman joins the Catholic Church
Sep 14, 2022 / 12:10 pm“Welcome to our newest Catholic, Marcus Freeman,” read an announcement in the Sept. 11 bulletin published by St. Pius X Catholic Church in Granger, Indiana.
Three bishops on the Camino to Santiago: An exclusive interview with Bishop James Conley
Sep 11, 2022 / 06:38 amThe three walked 15 to 24 miles a day along the Camino, just as pilgrims have been doing for more than 1,000 years, praying and talking with the people they met.
Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96
Sep 8, 2022 / 11:34 amQueen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, and the oldest and longest-serving head of state in the world, died at the age of 96 Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after a brief illness.
Ukraine’s Vatican ambassador rebukes Pope Francis for mention of Moscow car bomb victim
Aug 25, 2022 / 12:05 pmUkraine’s ambassador to the Holy See criticized Pope Francis on Wednesday for lamenting the car bombing that killed the daughter of an ally of Russian President Vladmir Putin.
‘The Atlantic’ publishes article on the rosary as symbol of far-right, violent extremism
Aug 15, 2022 / 16:06 pmThe author describes photos of rosary beads "made of cartridge casings, and complete with gun-metal-finish crucifixes."
Bishops urge passage of bill that would give same sentences to crack and powder cocaine offenders
Aug 11, 2022 / 16:50 pmLegislation passed in the House of Representatives would eliminate a disparity in federal sentencing the bishops say has a disproportionate effect on Black people.
Vatican enlists influencers to get young, disenchanted Catholics to answer Synod survey
Aug 9, 2022 / 16:34 pmJimmy Akin, a Catholic apologist and a host of the popular radio call-in show Catholic Answers Live, was tapped by the Vatican to reach out to Catholics whose voices haven't been heard.
Archie Battersbee’s legal fight for life at ‘the end,’ says mother
Aug 3, 2022 / 19:00 pmThe mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee said that the family is “at the end” of their efforts to keep their son on life support after the European Court of Appeals (ECHR) refused to intervene in the UK case.
Catholics respond with prayer and song when protesters disrupt conference
Aug 2, 2022 / 14:15 pmThe incident happened July 30 at a gathering hosted by the Napa Institute in California.
No remains unearthed yet from Canada’s residential school grave sites
Jul 25, 2022 / 18:48 pmNo excavation has been done at suspected grave sites at residential schools in Canada. Yet media outlets continue to report incorrectly that the “remains” of hundreds of children have been discovered.
Thieves return relic of Precious Blood of Jesus stolen from medieval church
Jul 23, 2022 / 07:27 amIt seems that once the culprits discovered that the box contained a relic of Jesus, they wanted nothing to do with it.
Testimony: China-backed cobalt mines in Congo exploit 40,000 child workers
Jul 16, 2022 / 04:00 amThe mines “are often no more than narrow shafts dug into the ground, which is why children are recruited — and in many cases forced — to descend into them," one witness said.
New poll: Catholic voters sour on Biden, Democrats
Jul 14, 2022 / 16:01 pmA majority of likely Catholic voters are unhappy with President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress, according to a poll commissioned by EWTN News and conducted by RealClear Opinion Research.