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Gaudium in Space · « **on:** August 12, 2013, 06:49:46 PM »

Fr. Dowling

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Jefferson City, Mo., Aug 12, 2013 / 02:12 pm (CNA).- The mysterious Missouri priest who gave anointing to a woman in her wrecked car near Center, Mo. has been identified as Father Patrick Dowling, of the Diocese of Jefferson City.

“I thank God and the amazingly competent rescue workers,” Fr. Dowling stated today in a comment on CNA's original article on the Aug. 4 incident.

“I thank them for making me welcome in such a highly charged situation and allowing me to minister as a priest.”

Katie Lentz was trapped in her older-model Mercedes, which had been struck by another vehicle which passed into her lane. That car's driver has been charged with DWI.

Rescue workers spent an hour trying to get Lentz out of her car, but the solid materials of its construction were dulling the fire department's emergency equipment.

Though the highway was blocked off, “I did not leave with the other cars,” Fr. Dowling commented. He parked as close as he could, “and walked the remaining 150 yards. I asked the Sheriff if a priest might be needed … on checking, he permitted me to approach.”

“When the young lady asked that I pray her leg stop hurting, I did so. She asked me to pray aloud and I did briefly … the rescue workers needed space, and would not have appreciated distraction. I stepped to one side and said my rosary silently until the lady was taken from the car.”

Once Lentz was removed from her vehicle, he explained, “I then shook hands with the Sheriff, and thanked him, as I left. I have to admire the calmness of everybody involved.”

“The Highway Patrol sergeant was amazingly calm and completely in control. Everybody worked with the harmony of a Swiss watch.”

CNA spoke with Fr. Dowling Aug. 12, and he explained that he gave Lentz Anointing of the Sick as well as absolution.

He affirmed that it was in the normal duties of a priest, “except that there was something extraordinary it sounds like, in the sequence of events that coincided in time with the Anointing.”

“You must remember, there were many people praying there, many, many people … and they were all praying obviously for healing and for her safety.”

“I was probably part of the answer to their prayers, I came by and Anointed and absolved, (but) I didn't say another word … I did not say anything like the machinery would begin to work or they would succeed in getting her out of the car.”

“That did not come from my lips, though two people heard it.”

Fr. Dowling was driving by Center while on his way from having said Mass in Ewing. A native of Ireland, Fr. Dowling was ordained a priest for the Jefferson City diocese in 1982. He has served at several parishes in the diocese, as well as its two mission parishes in Peru.

Fr. Dowling currently serves in prison ministry and serves the Spanish-speaking population of the Diocese of Jefferson City.

compline · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2013, 06:58:41 PM »

So it turned out to be a Father Dowling mystery??? Who would've thought...

Incredulous · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2013, 07:52:36 PM »

Like Msgr. Williamson always said... we can't give up on Novus ordo priests.

Sigismund · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2013, 08:29:07 PM »

Quote from: Incredulous

Like Msgr. Williamson always said... we can't give up on Novus ordo priests.

Are you actually surprised that a "Novus Ordo" priest would do this? What priest wouldn't?

vwinnie · « **Reply #4 on:** August 13, 2013, 02:27:28 AM »

He doesn't look like the artist sketch; he doesn't have the receding hairline. How did he manage to avoid having his picture taken in the 70-80 photographs that were shot? Why didn't the sheriff bother informing someone that he gave a priest permission to stay at the scene?

Cathedra · « **Reply #5 on:** August 13, 2013, 04:03:08 AM »

The "anointing of the sick" is invalid and worthless.

And this man was merely "installed" in 1982.

So he ain't even a real Priest.

Minor details.

TCat · « **Reply #6 on:** August 13, 2013, 06:15:51 AM »

Quote from: Cathedra

The "anointing of the sick" is invalid and worthless.

And this man was merely "installed" in 1982.

So he ain't even a real Priest.

Minor details.

Cathedra if you are right then I have no validly ordained priests anywhere near me cept for one priest who says novus ordo mass ( hence is apparently a heretic and excommunicated), but he only got a few years left.
All the tridentine ordained priests are in their 70s+

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2013, 10:26:37 AM »

The question is how the Priest got inside the car to anoint the woman with
holy oil when the paramedics and the firemen could not! They had to
use what is called the "Jaws of Life" tool to pry into the vehicle.
How did the Priest evade the massive police blocks on the highway!
I believe that the powers to be wanted an explanation for this event,
and would never accept a supernatural intervention of an Angel.
I do not believe that the Priest identified is the one.
The mystery is, If he was not the one, is why?
In the news story, it does not say that the woman in the car is a
Catholic, and attended Mass. Just a photo of her in shorts.
I have known a few people who I thought were good Catholics and
never missed a Sunday Mass die in accidents, and the hospital they
were taken to had no Priest in their contacts.
Just something to think about, and add to the story.

Cathedra · « **Reply #8 on:** August 13, 2013, 12:00:00 PM »

Quote from: TCat

Cathedra if you are right then I have no validly ordained priests anywhere near me cept for one priest who says novus ordo mass ( hence is apparently a heretic and excommunicated), but he only got a few years left.
All the tridentine ordained priests are in their 70s+

The invalidity of the New Rite is certain. You should read the material on it.

I am in the same boat. I know of no valid or traditional priest in my area.

s2srea · « **Reply #9 on:** August 13, 2013, 12:05:11 PM »

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

The question is how the Priest got inside the car to anoint the woman with
holy oil when the paramedics and the firemen could not! They had to
use what is called the "Jaws of Life" tool to pry into the vehicle.

The hydraulic cutters (aka: Jaws of Life) and spreaders are tools usually used to free a victim safely from a vehicle. It is not normally the entire body which is inaccessible, but the lower extremities. More often than not, the legs are pinned between the dashboard and floor from the crushing impact the vehicle has taken. The torso/head/upper-body of the victim is almost always accessible (if not, they are probably dead anyways), and medical aid is often administered before extrication.

It is highly likely that the priest, or anyone else for that matter, was able to access the lady in question.

s2srea · « **Reply #10 on:** August 13, 2013, 12:07:59 PM »

Quote from: Sigismund

Quote from: Incredulous
Like Msgr. Williamson always said... we can't give up on Novus ordo priests.

Are you actually surprised that a "Novus Ordo" priest would do this? What priest wouldn't?

I agree. Though I believe there is doubt to the New Rites, I do not presume to be a theologian. Growing up in the Novus Ordo, I cant imagine any priest who would not have attempted to administer the Last Rites.

Would I want an NO priest doing so for me? Nope. But there's no need to make up stories to make yourself feel better about the doubtfulness of the priests validity. Really.

TCat · « **Reply #11 on:** August 13, 2013, 01:31:08 PM »

Did this woman dress modestly and wear a veil to mass?
Did she go to the TLM? Read the books of the saints? Abstain from all the disgusting sins that pervade the modern world? Did she say the rosary often?

What are the chances?
I never thought its a miracle. Its common for people to escape from car crashes and live. Some priest shows up does the rites and then walks off. Were the rites given in the traditional form and in latin?

This is what a novus ordo calls a miracle. It obviously was not one, not even a rare occourance.
:smoke-pot:

TKGS · « **Reply #12 on:** August 13, 2013, 02:49:23 PM »

Quote from: TCat

This is what a novus ordo calls a miracle. It obviously was not one, not even a rare occurrence.

The Novus Ordo folks think of everything as a miracle, thus, nothing is actually miraculous. A weed growing in the middle of the sidewalk in the city is a miracle. Someone is cured after praying to a Novus Ordo pope while taking the actions and medications subscribed by a doctor that is supposed to cure the ailment and a miracle occurred. An image that vaguely looks like a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary appears in the soap residue of a poorly cleaned window and it's a miracle. Etc., Etc., Etc.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2013, 06:42:39 PM »

Something wrong with all of this.

The woman was never identified as a Catholic, at lease in my readings.

I saw only one picture of this woman, and she was in shorts.

Our Lady at Fatima said that many fashions will be introduced that

will not please God.

Miseremini · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2013, 07:48:34 PM »

This girl was conscious throughout her ordeal. Did the priest hear her confession? Inquire if she was Catholic? Baptise her? The reason I ask is because he said he gave her absolution; part of the Sacrament of Confession.
Do priests now administer the Sacraments whilly nilly?

Below is a newspaper article from HER pastor's point of view.

http://www.newstribune.com/news/2013/aug/09/pastor-praises-miracles-following-accident/