Remembering 9/11

On the clear, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, Fr Kevin Madigan heard an explosion overhead, Adelaide Mena writes from New York City in the Catholic Telegraph.

He grabbed oils for anointing, ran out the door of St Peter's parish in New York City, and wandered towards the centre of the commotion - the World Trade Centre only a block away.

Fifty blocks uptown, Fr Christopher Keenan, OFM watched with the world as the smoke rising from the twin towers darkened the television screen. Looking to help, he went to St Vincent's Hospital downtown to tend to those wounded in the attack - but the victims never came.

All the while, he wondered what had happened to a brother friar assigned as chaplain to the firefighters of New York City: Fr Mychal Judge, OFM, named by some the "Saint of 9/11."

To read on see: www.thecatholictelegraph.com/9-11-we-remember/53977