It is a good day when any major publication can tell a true story of faith, and that brings us to The Wall Street Journal's remarkable back-story of the tragic airplane/helicopter accident in New York this week.
The reason it is remarkable is that major papers, such at the Journal, are edited by de facto materialists who usually cannot see anything beyond the surface facts of a situation, and, in this case, the pitiful loss of a number of lives that seem especially significant once one knows more about them. What we sometimes see from a viewpoint of faith, however, is that God's economy is different, of course, from ours, and that transcending actions may take place beyond those of palpable temporal reality. And the effects of an incident like that in New York may extend in directions not initially imagined.
Who knows who was touched by this? Regardless, The Journal did well to give Fr. Jonathan Morris W3 of the Weekend edition. Most contemporary papers would not have grasped the drama behind the drama.
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