Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 13, 2026. Pope Leo commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in his address, praying for “those who continue to bear the wounds of that tragic day.” (OSV News photo/Matteo Pernaselci, Vatican Media) ROME — Pope […]
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, delivers the homily during a Sept. 11, 2026, Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada) WASHINGTON — While overwhelming sorrow at the […]
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 […]
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 […]