Faculty and students from Saint Mark’s High School in Wilmington gathered in prayer on Friday, Sept. 11 to mark the solemn 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001. From the school’s Facebook page: “Through prayer and reflection we honored the lives lost, the families forever changed and the courage of the first responders and everyday […]
The offering placed before the altar on Sept. 11, 2001, was unlike any ever seen at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Manhattan’s Financial District: the lifeless body of 68-year-old Franciscan friar and New York City Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge. He was killed when the 110 stories of the World Trade Center’s south tower […]
New York firefighters and rescue workers are seen Sept. 11, 2001, carrying Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with the New York Fire Department, who died while giving last rites to a firefighter following terrorist attacks that would soon bring down the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Twenty-five years after the 9/11 terrorism […]
Father Joseph Wilson of St. Margaret Church in the New York borough of Queens prays during a candlelight vigil Sept. 11, 2013. The ceremony marked the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) On Sept. 11, 2001 — the date of the worst terrorist attack in American history, when four […]