September 11 in Manhattan: Finding My Son Alive

By Gerard F. Baumbach

I wept when I heard the news that my youngest son had escaped the World Trade Center, alive but injured. Then I learned a lesson about life.

Ministry at Ground Zero: Firefighter Chaplain Chris Keenan, O.F.M.

By Jay Copp

One year ago, Father Mychal Judge, O.F.M., died serving New York City's firefighters. Another Franciscan friar carries on that tradition.

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