"The General is also required to have an "admonitor", a confidential advisor whose specific job is to warn the General honestly and confidentially when he is acting imprudently or is straying toward disobedience to the Pope or heresy." -- it sure would be handy, in a lot of formal roles that we may take on in daily life, to have such a check on our own selves! ah, the many things that a personal assistant might assist....