Zelda Caldwell

Zelda Caldwell

Zelda Caldwell is News Editor at Catholic News Agency based in Washington, DC. She previously worked for Aleteia, as News and Culture editor.

Articles by Zelda Caldwell

A teddy bear sits beside a lantern outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School where flowers and cards have been left as part of a growing makeshift memorial created in response to media reports that the "remains" of 215 children have been discovered buried near the facility in Kamloops on June 5, 2021. Cole Burston /AFP via Getty Images

No remains unearthed yet from Canada’s residential school grave sites

Jul 25, 2022 / 18:48 pm

No 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.

Art detective Arthur Brand and the reliquary that turned up on his doorstep. Credit: Arthur Brand

Thieves return relic of Precious Blood of Jesus stolen from medieval church

Jul 23, 2022 / 07:27 am

It seems that once the culprits discovered that the box contained a relic of Jesus, they wanted nothing to do with it.

Congolese civil rights attorney Hervé Diakiese Kyungu testifying on July 14, 2022, at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. on the use of child labor in China-backed cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Screenshot from YouTube video

Testimony: China-backed cobalt mines in Congo exploit 40,000 child workers

Jul 16, 2022 / 04:00 am

The 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.

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New poll: Catholic voters sour on Biden, Democrats

Jul 14, 2022 / 16:01 pm

A 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.