Twenty years ago in the wake of the September eleven attacks, our country experienced a time of national mourning and of great anxiety. The United States and the American people would never be the same. But it was also a time of
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the nine eleven terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw looks back on the tragedies of that day and how the Church sought to console the mourning and
Getting Muslim and Christian young people together to know each other before terrorist groups can sow divisiveness is seen as key to peace in the Sahel region of western Africa, said panelists during a March 30 online workshop presented by Catholic Relief
A suicide bomb attack on a Catholic cathedral compound shattered the calm of Palm Sunday Mass, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people wounded.
A destroyed motorbike and the body parts of a man and a woman were found after the
French bishops conducted a "penitential rite of reparation" inside a church in which three people were murdered in late October.
The Nov. 1 Mass of reparation was celebrated in Notre Dame Basilica by Nice Bishop André Marceau, who was joined by Archbishop Jean-Marc
Bishops in the United States and around the world expressed condolences after three people were murdered before Mass Oct. 29 in the basilica in Nice, France.
French police have confirmed they are treating the killings as a terrorist incident. The attacks came less
France's Catholic bishops have joined Muslim leaders in condemning the beheading of a teacher in a Paris suburb.
"We will defend schools and those who form them, so ignorance can be fought everywhere," said Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, president of the bishops' Council for
The nation "can never forget" the 9/11 tragedy "that shook the foundations of our society and our trust in our government to protect us," Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio said in his Sept. 9 column in The Tablet, the diocesan newspaper.
"As a city
An archbishop has called a terrorist attack in London in which three people were stabbed "saddening and shocking." Archbishop John Wilson of Southwark lamented how "yet again" innocent bystanders had become victims of terrorist violence. One of those stabbed was a Catholic
Msgr. John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain who is currently pastor of St. Jude Church in Brooklyn, remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly.