By Kurt Jensen OSV News WASHINGTON — While overwhelming sorrow at the memory of the dead from 9/11 comes easily, the continuing challenge for Catholics is forgiveness and reconciliation in a fractured world, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio said in his Sept. 11 homily. Archbishop Broglio, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, called […]
Sept. 11 victims’ loved ones lean on faith to cope
By Simone Orendain OSV News Joseph Connor had his back turned to the large window of his 36th floor office when he “suddenly more felt than heard” the massive impact of a commercial jet slamming into the North Tower of the World Trade Center a third of a mile away on Sept. 11, 2001. As […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Remembering 9/11
Catholic Social Tips Today marks the 25th anniversary of the terror attack on our country known simply as “9/11” — a series of attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that killed thousands of people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The events happened nearly 5,000 miles away. Yet there was a deep connection to what […]