Kelly Nicholaides

Mar 23, 2024 | catholicreview.org | Kelly Nicholaides

Leaning into a sprinter’s stance while watching the 2008 Olympics, 8-year-old Sydney McLaughlin visualized her future. Fast forward eight years. The junior at Union Catholic High School earned a spot on the Women’s USA Track and Field Team. Riddled with anxiety, fear, and self-doubt, she failed to earn a medal in the 400-meter hurdle at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, but she overcame adversity and won the gold twice four years later.

Mar 20, 2024 | news.diocesetucson.org | Kelly Nicholaides

By Kelly Nicholaides, OSV News(OSV News) -- Leaning into a sprinter's stance while watching the 2008 Olympics, 8-year-old Sydney McLaughlin visualized her future. Fast forward eight years. The junior at Union Catholic High School earned a spot on the Women's USA Track and Field Team. Riddled with anxiety, fear, and self-doubt, she failed to earn a medal in the 400-meter hurdle at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, but she overcame adversity and won the gold twice four years later.

Mar 19, 2024 | thebostonpilot.com | Kelly Nicholaides

Your browser does not support the audio element. (OSV News) -- Leaning into a sprinter's stance while watching the 2008 Olympics, 8-year-old Sydney McLaughlin visualized her future. Fast forward eight years. The junior at Union Catholic High School earned a spot on the Women's USA Track and Field Team.

Feb 6, 2024 | jerseycatholic.org | Jaimie Julia Winters |Kelly Nicholaides

Hundreds of parishioners packed St. Stephen’s Church in Kearny for a remembrance mass honoring the Four Chaplains of World War II. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), American Legions, Knights of Columbus, and Kearny Boy Scouts streamed in during the color guard ceremony. Eighty-one years ago, on Feb. 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Only 230 of the 904 men on board survived. The Four Chaplains—Catholic priest Father John P.

Jan 4, 2024 | jerseycatholic.org | Kelly Nicholaides |Jaimie Julia Winters

Thirty-five years ago, 16-year-old Esterminio Chica fled war-torn El Salvador. Twenty of his family members were killed when the Salvadoran Army slaughtered more than 75,000 civilians between 1979 and 1992 during a military coup and civil war funded by the United States. The El Mozote village massacre in the Morazan region claimed 1,000 lives on Dec. 11-12, 1981. A child refugee, Chica journeyed through Mexico to the U.S. in 1988.