Reply To: The Grey Wolf flaws
What I have an issue with is putting Robert who is not a priest in the confessional because the priest on duty is too tired. I understand that priests get tired on a human level, but Catholics believe the priest acts in the person of Christ in certain sacramental situations of which confession is one. That action in the person of Christ is as sacred as the seal of confession. No priest would put someone in the confessional who could not give absolution because that replacement would not have the sacramental power to act in the person of Christ. To me, it seems that the act of absolution is trivialized and the sacred role of the priest therein. That’s why I do not find this flaw forgivable. There should have been some other way than the confessional for Brother Robert to find out about the plot to poison the water.
