Caught on film: Priest’s miraculous close call with death, on the feast of the Guardian Angels

The oncoming car, driven by a teenager who was having an epileptic seizure, hit a bent metal pole and launched airborne over Fr. John's car, rather than crashing straight into him. Neither the teenager nor Fr. John was injured. 

The close call, which Fr. John didn't even realize had happened at the time because he has poor peripheral vision, was caught on a local funeral home's security camera and showed to him later by a friend.

The experience, which happened on the Feast of Guardian Angels, gave the former science teacher a lot to think about: 

Fr. John's reflection brings to mind the long-standing, loving relationship the Catholic Church has with the sciences. From Copernicus to George Lemaitre (the father of the Big Bang Theory), there have been countless Catholic thinkers over the centuries who embrace the fact that faith and reason go hand-in-hand -- or in Fr. John's case, car launching over car.