In fact, many faithful believe angels are sent from God to help those in need. While angels are more prevalent in the Catholic tradition than in many other faiths, people of any religion can touch the invisible world as they draw nearer to God, according to Mannella. There’s an invisible world behind the scenes that’s really operative in our lives,” Mannella says. We only need to be attentive to their presence to know they are there. Mannella says angels are all around us, despite claims from skeptics who discount them because they can’t be seen or scientifically proven. Thomas University and Catholic University said God and angels are very much alive and working in the world. The former parish minister and instructor at both St. None of this comes as a surprise to Frederick Mannella, Ph.D., who spoke on all things angelic to a riveted audience of Alvernians and area residents at the Reading-based McGlinn Conference Center of the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters earlier this year. But most non-Christians think angels exist too, as do more than four in 10 of those who never even attend religious services. That belief is often linked to religion, with 88 percent of Christians, 95 percent of evangelical Christians and 94 percent of those who attend weekly religious services of any sort saying they believe in angels. A 2011 Associated Press poll showed nearly eight in 10 Americans believe in angels. Nearly 70 years later, angelic interest has hit a fervor pitch.
Wingless but lovable, Oddbody made his screen debut in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” leading a generation to ponder angels and their presence all around us … and leading Bailey to reconsider his fatal plunge.
That’s why I’m called an Angel Second Class.” “Hey, what’s an AS2?” wondered Bailey aloud. Young George Bailey was balancing on the edge of a bridge, two toes away from a jump, when he had his first angelic encounter with Clarence Oddbody, AS2.
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