It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: three Catholic priests are riding in a car when they get in an accident …
But the Italian car accident that claimed the life of a Pennsylvania priest and injured Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore wasn’t funny at all. Keeler, 75 and nursing a broken ankle, talked about the accident for the first time in Baltimore. Immediately after impact, two of the three priests performed last rites on each other, just in case.
“That was what the instinct reaction of the priest is: to make sure the sacraments of the church are available to someone dying or in danger of death,” Keeler said.
