Bishop Brendan Cahill, who is chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, spoke with The Tablet after recording an episode of the “Big City Catholics” podcast alongside Bishop Robert Brennan and Bishop Emeritus Nicholas DiMarzio.
A 9/11 anniversary Mass at the National Shrine in Washington called Catholics to honor victims and first responders by becoming agents of forgiveness, reconciliation and peace.
Pope Leo XIV commemorated the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in his Sunday Angelus address, praying for “those who continue to bear the wounds of that tragic day.”
Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks of New York celebrated his first Sept. 11 memorial Mass since becoming New York’s archbishop.
Until Oct. 11, the “Remembering 9/11: 25 Years Later” exhibit at the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center in New Haven, Conn., honors the 46 members of the Knights of Columbus who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
On the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the words and gestures of three popes still echo through the grief of that day — from St. John Paul II’s immediate prayers for a shaken nation, to Pope Benedict XVI’s silent visit to ground zero, to Pope Francis’ rose placed at one of the memorial’s reflecting pools.
As the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, U.S. Catholic bishops are offering Masses, prayers and reflections – while also stressing the need to seek peace amid a fractured global landscape.
For many who were children on Sept. 11, 2001, the day is filled with memories of learning about the attacks from their teachers. Some of those children grew up to be teachers themselves. The Tablet spoke to four of them to learn how they plan to teach 9/11 to their students on the 25th anniversary.
For three decades, visitors to Aqueduct Racetrack, who came to place bets or just to watch thoroughbreds run, passed a bronze plaque commemorating the time the venue was visited by a saint.
On September 9, 2026 The Tablet’s walking pilgrimage through the Diocese of Brooklyn marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
