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September 11
‘God was with us on the stairwell’: A hero of 9/11 finds his vocation
By Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Sep 11, 2023 / 05:00 am Paul Carris had started a new job working in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the 71st floor in July 2001. Two months later, on the morning of Sept. 11, Carris had just hung up the phone …
September 11 Prayer
O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather today at this site, the scene of incredible violence and pain. We ask you in your goodness to give eternal light and peace to all who died here– the heroic first-responders: …
Cardinal Pacelli Sixth Graders Mark the 20 Year Anniversary of 9/11
In early September students in the sixth-grade religion class at Cardinal Pacelli embarked on a project to remember and honor those who died on September 11, 2001. For the twenty-year anniversary of 9/11, they turned their attention to the victims of this tragedy. Each student chose one person to honor, …
America’s return to God after 9/11 didn’t last long, priest says
by Shannon Mullen Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 14, 2021 / 16:19 pm Twenty years ago, Father John A. Perricone sat down at his desk in the rectory of St. Agnes Catholic Church in midtown Manhattan and began to write. “I sit here writing this piece coughing on the fumes of …
How 9/11 led a first responder to the priesthood
by Kate Olivera, Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, Sep 11, 2021 / 10:12 am On a September morning, twenty years ago, Tom Colucci was in his car driving home, weary after working the overnight shift at a firehouse in Lower Manhattan. Then, at 8:46am, he got a call. The city was …
Throwback Thursday: September 11, 2001
Staff Report The events of September 11, 2001 are burned into the memories of all Americans alive at the time. For arguably the first time in world history, a major international tragedy took place under the watch of a 24-hour news cycle.
The tale behind symbol of light when Pope Benedict visited ground zero
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — When Pope Benedict XVI visited ground zero in 2008, he knelt alone and prayed inside the cement-walled crater where the World Trade Center once stood. As a sign of bringing light and hope to the dark memory of 9/11, the pope …