I'm not a big fan of this effort to play up 9/11 every year, but... since it seems inescapable, this is an interesting factoid. The Denver Channel:
You may not hear a lot about gay Roman Catholic priests.
But one such clergyman is getting a lot of attention this week: Father Mychal Judge, a Franciscan friar who donned a brown robe and sandals and who was the first recorded casualty of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Among the many hats Judge wore was as chaplain for the New York Fire Department. He was killed after going to the World Trade Center with some off-duty firefighters after the first plane hit.
