Rescue workers carry fatally injured New York City Fire Department chaplain Father Mychal Judge from one of the World Trade Center towers in New York in this iconic Sept. 11, 2001, file photo.

Father Mychal Judge was a Franciscan friar and a chaplain to the New York City Fire Department. He was also a true New York character. Born in Brooklyn, Mychal Judge seemed to know everyone in the ...

As Mark Rohlena of the Napa Institute reflected, we must never take our priests for granted. ‘We must pray for them every day ...

Over twenty years after perishing at the World Trade Center on 9/11, Father Mychal Judge, the FDNY chaplain, still draws the faithful to his final resting place in Totowa, N.J.

He now leads the Father Mychal Judge 9/11 Walk of Remembrance, which is something his late friend, New York Police Department detective Steve McDonald, started in September of 2002.

Editor's note: Father Mychal Judge was a Franciscan priest who served as a chaplain for the New York City Fire Department.He was killed on September 11, 2001 ministering to the firefighters he ...

This year’s Father Mychal Judge Walk of Remembrance is Sunday, Sept. 4 at 10 a.m. (with an optional rosary and Catholic mass at 9) in front of St. Francis of Assissi Church in Manhattan, where ...

But Mychal Judge’s legend did not begin on Sept. 11, 2001, when the horrors of international terrorism struck America so forcefully. Decades before, ...

On this 9/11 20th anniversary, Father Mychal Judge, even in his death, sends a message. From the midst of hate, war, and violence, he points us to another possible path for us as human beings.

Father Mychal Judge, pictured here in July 2001. (Getty Images) He set off urgently on that world-changing morning to where the Lord wanted to take him, thinking only of helping others.

Since then, he had a close elationship with Franciscan Father Mychal Judge who died ministering to firefighters on the scene of the World Trade Center attack Sept. 11.