Disclosing conflicts of interest, for example, can have the effect of absolving those who have the conflict from further worry about it.
And this is why, as one approaches the Father, no matter how far off track that one seems to have gotten, there is an absolving of guilt and shame.
He has stepped up the peace process with United boss Sir Alex Ferguson by absolving him for their infamous boot bust-up shortly before he left in 2003.
Geography can no longer be used as an excuse for absolving itself of any responsibility in the region.