"‘So first, let me caution you about this person, Thon Taddeo. Treat him with your customary charity, but trust him not. He is a brilliant scholar, but a secular scholar, and a political captive of the State. Here, Hannegan is the State. Furthermore, the thon is rather anti-clerical, I think-or perhaps solely anti-monastic. After his embarrassing birth, he was spirited away to a Benedictine monastery, and-but no, ask the courier about that...’"