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Understood...but there was at least the suggestion that he found a new romantic interest and was ready to start a new life. What I thought of when I read your question concerned the end of the movie "Se7en" with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Had it ended almost any way other than how it did...

You bet. However, I don't necessarily see this as a failing. From my experience, the more popular people have been the more active and outgoing members of the congregation while the quieter and more reserved people are less "popular." This does not mean that the "popular" ones are therefore...

right end of the top row or the one at the left in the second row.

The "Haitians killing cats, dogs, and geese" story was in the news several days ago, so readers had no reason instantly to think it was untrue. Now, after Trump's mention of the matter during the debate, the usual TV networks and print media that specialize in denigrating Trump are almost...

I watched a little bit of the debate. That was all I could endure. Trump's style of speech is unappealing, and Kamala essentially mouths a script without really answering the question asked. But after all is said and done, Trump did have facts while Kamala relied on generalities and pious...

Is the point only that we have a term for these beings that isn't used in Scripture for the heavenly hosts, and which we commonly call angels? Because the word itself is found there. If that's it, I'm thinking that the earlier comment in post #11 about our use of the word Trinity seems apt.

That's true, and there are different conclusions reached by different people, but there are over 200 Bible references to these beings we call angels, and most of the "kinds" are referred to in Colossians 1:16. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth...

That's the traditional view of the different choirs of beings commonly called angels, but although different classifications of angelic beings have Biblical support, the particular rankings and attributes come from various Christian writers and then from Tradition. Accordingly, the highest are...

As concerns what's convenient for the voter...or what's good for our system of government?

What's all this I hear about Olympic Weight Loss? If Olympic athletes want to lose some weight before competing, there's nothing wrong with that. . What's that? Never mind.

Many of us have witnessed that sort of thing. It seems to come from poorly instructed Christians who can't get comfortable with the idea that God did something wonderful for us that we, as sinners, didn't earn and couldn't do on our own. They know that God gave us instructions in moral...

Yes, I knew that "Food Banks" wasn't exactly what I was trying to describe. I was thinking of some sort of community charitable program or evangelizing project or something like those. They involve people outside of attendance at the Sunday worship service and probably do build a sense of...

I'm going to guess that it helps if the church sponsors a number of auxiliary groups such as Kids Club, Young Adults Bible Study, Food Bank, and whatever. There are several problems with this friendliness, though. I am referring to 1) the idea that the worship service ought to be gimmicky and...

Excuses? No, but I was saying that it probably explains her storytelling.

I know what you mean, but she actually was brain damaged from a beating received as a young woman, and as a result of that was confined to her bed for much of the rest of her life.

. . .which is exactly the position taken by the Catholic Church after the Index was abolished!

I don't think that. Hardly anyone has so much as heard of Maria Valtorta while the Bible is the most-read and discussed book in the world. See the above. Virtually every Christian denomination in the world bases its doctrines on Scripture Alone or Scripture with Tradition.

Why need he have done that? After all, we have Scripture and Tradition, both of which are available to all people throughout the ages. That's not the case with claims made by a lone person saying that he or she has something that usually can't be verified and has been available to very few...

I didn't say that. Rather, I was responding to your comment that of all those who have claimed God spoke to them in an audible way (and gave information not found in the Scriptures or Tradition), some are not genuine but that some are. You have chosen to believe the story told by one of them...

No, you didn't. What you gave was, at best, evidence of some inexplicable happenings, but not that she was a "spokesperson of God."