katie lentz

I could not resist having fun with that title. It was just too punny!

One of the more intriguing stories last week was that of the mysterious priest who arrived on the scene of a vehicular accident in Missouri. 19-year old Katie Lentz was on her way to church when a drunk-driver smashed her car. Emergency workers tried for more than an hour to get Lentz clear of the wreck and it looked like she wasn’t going to make it. Just then a Catholic priest appeared, anointed Lentz with oil and prayed with her. It was very soon after that firefighters and EMTs got Lentz out and flown to a hospital. And the priest? He vanished before anyone had a chance to thank him for being there.

Curiously, he didn’t turn up in any of 90-some photos that were made of the crash site. Between that and the effect ...

He was there.

Everybody at the scene, from firefighters to police paramedics to the victim herself, saw him and heard him.

His calming words and peaceful demeanor are being credited with saving the life of a 19-year old young woman.

But he is nowhere to be found in any of the nearly 70 photographs taken at the site of the accident.

Neither can anyone figure out how he could have been there to begin with, since the road was blocked for two miles by police on both sides of the wreck. There were no parked cars. There were no pedestrians seen approaching the site, either walking along the road or coming across the fields along Highway 19 near Center, Missouri.

He disappeared before anyone could thank him.

And yet he was there. His presence is being called a miracle. And many are wondering if the person – who seemed ...