St. Paul's Chapel stands directly across the street from what was the World Trade Center Complex. The graveyard backs onto that street, with the chapel farther east on Broadway. Miraculously, St. Paul's appears to have suffered little damage.
03 October 2001
We, your bishops, have come together in the shadow of the shattering events of September 11. We in the United States now join that company of nations in which ideology disguised as true religion wreaks havoc and sudden death.
03 October 2001
Dust, everywhere. Everywhere, everywhere, dust. Everything was covered in dust. It was unbelievable. We couldn't imagine how the whole of south Manhattan Island could become covered in dust.
03 October 2001
A first important step was taken at 10 a.m. September 19. As the church bell's struck the hour, Trinity's grand bronze doors were opened and the Financial District's new community--emergency workers dazed by their round-the-clock work with piles of twisted steel and rubble--was welcomed inside.
24 September 2001
We didn't hear anything (because the first plane went into the north tower of the WTC, the farthest from Trinity) but I noticed all these papers floating through the air. I went over to the window and looked up and as high as one could see there was paper floating down, sparkling in the bright sunlight.
24 September 2001
About 100 yards out of the building people began to turn around and point up in the air at a plume of smoke coming from about a third of the way around the building. At that point I still thought it was a bomb. Only later did someone tell me that a plane had crashed into the building.
24 September 2001
To many teens, spring break means partying on the beach, cruising downtown, hanging out with friends at dance clubs and malls. But for several students at York School in Monterey, California, spring signals a return visit to the desperately poor country of Haiti.
17 September 2001
Canadian Anglicans are again being urged to write their members of Parliament and local newspapers to express their views on the litigation surrounding residential schools.
14 September 2001
We are disappointed and saddened by the recent actions of some of our brothers and sisters in the Anglican Mission in American, specifically the recent consecrations in Denver, which can only be interpreted as divisive of our common life in Christ.
07 September 2001
Episcopal mission groups active in Haiti will join with Haitian diocesan leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 24, 25 and 26 October to share a vision and continue to build relationships.
05 September 2001