Carol Zimmermann

Carol Zimmermann

Veteran Catholic journalist Carol Zimmermann joined NCR as news editor in August 2024. Based in the Washington, D.C., she previously worked as a reporter and editor at Catholic News Service. Most recently, she worked at DeSales Media, the communications group at the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, and as senior national correspondent for the Brooklyn Diocese’s newspaper and website, The Tablet. She is a board member of the Catholic Media Association.

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Mercy sisters see moral issue behind climate change protests

Women religious, and Sisters of Mercy in particular, attended several of climate protests and stood out by wearing purple "Mercy for Justice" T-shirts and carrying pre-made signs with messages: "The climate crisis is a moral issue" and "Mercy for the earth."

Renowned journalist Cokie Roberts, lifelong Catholic, dies at age 75

Cokie Roberts, a broadcast journalist and political commentator who spoke publicly about her Catholic faith and her admiration for the Sacred Heart sisters who taught her, died Sept. 17 due to complications from breast cancer. She was 75.

It's in the cards for woman religious who threw perfect pitch

Call to end Affordable Care Act is 'immoral,' says Catholic Health Association president

Woman religious in war-torn Syria focuses on rebuilding, healing

Woman religious urges college students to help at border

Mercy sisters decry report of immigrant children moved to tent city

Former math teacher makes sure girls, women in South Sudan, Haiti learn

Sr. Norma Pimentel receives University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal

Convocation 'great opportunity' for U.S. church, says religious sister

Sister who aids Ugandan women urges media not to 'sugarcoat evil'

Help us 'go back home,' displaced Iraqi sister urges U.S. Congress

Medical, spiritual worlds combine for Mercy sister who is pediatrician

Year of Consecrated Life events to help laity learn more about religious

Immigrants, activists urge Obama to act on immigration reform