ANGEL ARRIVES AT ACCIDENT SCENE SAYS USA TODAY AND THE UK DAILY MAIL

(Update 8/27/13) - The priest has been identified as Fr. Patrick Dowling who is very human.

The priest, from the Jefferson City diocese, said, “I try to be a priest, not a hero...And I did what a priest does. And every priest that I know, if they would pass by an accident, they would stop and do what I did.”  [more...]

(Update 8/12/13) - ABC News with Diane Sawyer carried the story (with video).  I can't ever recall a national TV news program carrying a serious story about angelic help before.   One "Nightline" story, a few months ago, suggested an individual's brain had special capacities, but in the case of this current angelic help, the "angel" was seen by many people and not the subjective experience of just one person.

(Original post) I wonder if you saw this amazing story reported in two major dailies as the headline above indicates.  (HT: Drudge)  The headline from the Daily Mail reads:

"The riddle of the 'angel priest': Holy man appeared from nowhere to pray with trapped girl and rescuers in traffic accident, told them she would be OK and then vanished."

The Daily Mail summarizes the story this way:

Katie Lentz was hit head-on by a drunk driver on Sunday morning on an isolated stretch of Missouri highway

Emergency workers battled for over an hour to rescue her but they couldn't free her from the car wreck

Lentz requested a moment of prayer and a priest appeared - even though the road was blocked off

He prayed and told the rescuers that Lentz would now be freed - and she was

They turned to thank him - but he was gone

Click through for numerous photos, videos, and for the complete story.

 

USA Today picked up the story as well, utilizing both video and text.

What's particularly interesting to me is that two nights ago I had looked at a YouTube interview with Judith MacNutt (below) recounting angelic appearances she wrote about in her book Angels Are For Real: Inspiring True Stories, and Biblical Answers. 

I confess I've been skeptical of reported angelic appearances through the years, but I have a high regard for Judith MacNutt and then came the story posted above.  It's mind-stretching for us with naturalism in our bones (as C.S. Lewis put it), but Scripture and experience both testify to aid rendered by angels.   The naturalistic worldview is much too narrow and confining.  Yet it surrounds us like smog and so we need to monitor our thinking constantly.