He's truly absent so significantly as to neglect all of the angels, ignoring them as they combat and eliminate them selves in civil war, and evidently not caring that a single of his Archangels is lifeless, two of them are locked in a cage in Hell, and the very last is seeking to just take management of Heaven via brutal pressure. The mother kills equally him and his lover, and is implied to have experimented with to get rid of her daughter.