[the invisib1e hand]

"Cowardice, I suppose. My listeners and readers simply would not understand."

I stopped here. What a pity. What a pity. Always dug Elisabeth Elliot.

[big'ol_freeper]

It is a shame that many keep themselves separated from the fullness of faith found in the Catholic Church when their love of Holy Scripture points squarely to His Church.

[livius]

She probably was more worried about them (wrongly) than about herself - that is, she was probably afraid they’d feel abandoned, deceived, etc. Of course, some of them might have; but others would have started thinking...

Prayers for her in any case. Alzheimers in anybody is a horror, but in a person who was recognized as brilliant and gifted in her field, it must be twice as hard. Muriel Spark, the British philosopher/novelist (and Catholic convert), had it, and IIRC, her husband wrote about it later.

[NYer]

I stopped here. What a pity.

Actually .... what piety!