Monsignor Flaught

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also known as advocatus diaboli, devil's advocate

Opponent

Hostile investigator sent from New Rome to oppose Leibowitz's canonization; aggressively cross-examines Francis seeking to discredit his testimony and the authenticity of the documents.

In A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960)