Catholic Charities of New York

On September 10, 2026, one day before the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Catholic Charities of New York staff attended a special Memorial Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral led by Archbishop Ronald Hicks.

The Mass featured a bagpipe procession by the FDNY Emerald Society Pipes and Drums and was attended by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Zoh...

For those of us old enough to remember, we can still picture the morning of the September 11 attacks — the disbelief, the fear, the calls to family and friends, and the profound sadness that settled over our city and our nation.

And yet, alongside that darkness, we witnessed something extraordinary: the courage of people who ran toward danger to help those in need...

On September 11, 2001, Mary Ellen Ros, then Director of Parish and Community Services for Catholic Charities of New York, decided to drive into work.

“I missed my train by one minute, and decided to take my car in,” she says, “which ended up becoming a good decision because I was able to drive a lot of our Westchester colleagues home that day.”

That morn...

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Three days before the September 11 attacks, Tom Dobbins Jr. was attending the annual Catholic Charities USA conference in Newark, New Jersey, when he captured what would become one of the last photographs of the Twin Towers before they fell.

Dobbins, then Catholic Charities of New York’s Criminal Justice Outreach Coordinator, had returned to Liberty State Park with...