The T. Mort. Chaplaincy at Ground Zero: Presence and Privilege on Holy Ground

I am profoundly grateful to Julie Taylor of Disaster Chaplaincy Services—NY, for the access to archival material, and to Peter Gudaitis of New York Disaster Interfaith Services for practical assistance for the chaplains interviews.

American Red Cross (ARC) (2001).

Roberts and Ashley (2008), p. 101.

American Red Cross (2001), op. cit., Slide 6.

Roberts and Ashley (2008), op. cit., p. 102.

Many thanks to the T. Mort. chaplains whose interviews in 2006 helped inform this article.

Boyles (2001).

O’Donnell (2001a).

Franklin and Donovan (2003).

Franklin and Donovan (2003), op. cit., p. 117.

Members of both this team and American Red Cross credentialed chaplains also responded to the disaster of the crash Flight 587 in the Far Rockaways, New York, in October, 2001.

O’Donnell (2001b).

Franklin and Donovan (2003), op. cit., pp. 142–143.

Myers and Wee (2005).

O’Donnell (2001a).

Father Mychal Judge was cataloged as the first Victim of the 9/11 WTC Disaster, no.0001. Another of the FDNY Chaplains, Monsignor John Delendick narrowly escaped the collapse of the towers when the command post was ordered to be moved by the Chief of Department Peter Ganci. Minutes later Ganci and First Deputy Commissioner William Feehan, who were steps behind Delendick were killed. FDNY chaplain, Monsignor Marc Fillachione, after being treated at St. Vincent’s Hospital for inhalation of dusk and debris from the second plane’s impact, spent time in the Emergency Room ministering to victims and firefighters. He noted that one of the others ministering there was Cardinal Egan, dressed in green scrubs. September 11, 2001, Burns (2003), We Were There. Catholic Priests and How They Responded. In Their Own Words, USCCB, p. 5. www.​usccb.​org/​vocations/​wewerethere.​html.

Fink and Mathias (2002).

Franklin and Donovan (2003), op. cit., p. 116.

Email from Tom Faulkner to Gerald Blackburn at the “Episcopal Church Chaplaincy.” Friday November 2, 2001, 3:16 pm. New York: Courtesy Disaster Chaplaincy Services.

Approximately a third of the respondents were Episcopal clergy. This reflects the disproportionately large percentage of Episcopal chaplains due to the consolidation of the St. Paul’s chaplaincy with the Temporary Morgue.

Serban (2008).

Reflecting the population of the Fire Department, while respecting ecumenism and diverse faiths, of the current six FDNY chaplains the positions are 4 Roman Catholic, 1 Protestant, and 1 Jewish.

Keegan Jr (2006).

Disaster Chaplaincy Services—New York and New York Disaster Interfaith Services.

“In the latter case …of the depressive—the anxiety and feelings of suffering are of a much more complex nature. The anxiety lest the good objects and with them the ego should be destroyed, or that they are in a case of disintegration, is interwoven with continuous and desperate efforts to save the good objects both internalized and external.” Klein (1975).

See Roberts et al. (2003) and Flannelly et al. (2005).

Larry Provenzano in Franklin and Donovan (2003), op. cit., p. 78.

Harding S. (2006).