Students from Christ the Teacher Catholic School in Newark gather for a service on the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2011. Courtesy photo Students in grades 6–8 at Christ the Teacher Catholic School recently gathered to remember and honor the lives forever impacted by Sept. 11, 2001. As the nation marks the 25th anniversary of […]
Kids line up outside Holy Cross School in Dover waiting for bike riders honoring first responders Sept. 11. Dialog photo/Joseph P. Owens The gray, early morning drizzle may as well have been brilliant sunshine Sept. 11 as more than 400 students were bursting with energy and enthusiasm outdoors at the campus of Holy Cross parish […]
A cross made of steel from one of the fallen towers of the World Trade Center is seen at sunrise Sept. 11, 2021, at New York’s Breezy Point 9/11 Memorial on the day marking the 20th anniversary of the 2001, attacks. U.S. Catholic bishops are offering Masses, prayers and reflections as the nation marks the […]
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 […]