|
|
Article: Moments of grace during a day of terror.(World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- September 21, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Professor searched for answers outside of freshman theology class
This morning, Tuesday, Sept. 11, I picked up the phone in my room in Jersey City, N.J., and it was Bryan Kelly in Japan to tell me he was watching CNN, and the World Trade Center had been hit by two planes.
At my fingertips were photos Bryan, a graduate of Fordham Univeristy in New York, had taken on his visit home in July. They showed the two of us, on the Jersey City waterfront, with the twin towers of the World Trade Center across the Hudson River behind us.
I had never admired the architecture of the Towers and I had never wished them to be there; but they were there, at the ...