Remembering the FDNY chaplain who raced to the twin towers on 9/11 to pray

Victim 0001: Friends recall Father Mychal Judge’s 9/11 loss and legacy

(OSV News) — 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 collapsed at 9:59 a.m., blasting debris into the adjacent north tower lobby where Father Judge was s…

The first recorded victim of 9/11 was a gay Catholic priest

Twenty-five years after Father Mychal Judge died inside the World Trade Center, the life behind one of the day’s defining images still challenges the Catholic Church’s ideas about who may be holy.In the photograph, almost everything is gray.Five men, their faces and clothing coated in ash, carry the body of the Rev. Mychal Judge through the ruins of the World Trade Center. His head falls to one side. His black clerical clothes and white Roman co…

25 years on from 9/11: How New York’s firefighters paid the highest price on September 11

From Father Mychal Judge to the 343 firefighters who died, the FDNY’s losses reshaped a department and its enduring bond

9/11 anniversary: Fr Mychal Judge to be remembered in father’s home village in Leitrim

Franciscan friar recognised as first fatality of terrorist attacks 25 years ago on New York’s Twin Towers

Remembering the FDNY chaplain who raced to the twin towers on 9/11 to pray

FDNY Chaplain Father Mychal Judge's legacy began with a selfless act. Here's how friends and colleagues are remembering the priest who raced to the twin towers to pray for others.

Victim 0001: Friends recall Father Mychal Judge's 9/11 loss and legacy

(OSV News) — 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 collapsed at 9:59 a.m., blasting debris into the adjacent north tower lobby where Father Judge was s…