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I can tell the director put a lot of effort into researching this series. The behind-the-scenes documentation of the production made me expect that the Catholic aspects would be handled with care, and for the most part, they were. That said, the one thing that kept bothering me was the ordination timeline. I genuinely thought the one who was going to be ordained was BarthTanrak's adopted son (I was assuming they adopted a child or maybe children), but it turned out to be Kongdech instead. I know there's no maximum age for ordination in the Catholic Church, and people can certainly become priests later in life. But speaking about what's usually the case, someone who enters the seminary after high school would normally be ordained in their mid-20s. A "20 years later" ordination puts Kongdech around his mid-30s, and the series never really gives us a reason why his formation would have taken that much longer. It's not impossible—it just felt a little off.
Another tiny thing that lowkey annoyed me was: Tanrak sighs. A lot. Like... "hhhheuy." Every. Single. Time. I kept thinking, "Is your life really that heavy, nhoo?"

Moving on to the good stuff. The idea, the plot, and the execution are genuinely great. What I loved the most was Barth's backstory. His struggle with God wasn't only because "I'm gay, therefore I hate God." It went much deeper than that, which made his character so much more compelling.
And lastly, thank you, Gemini, for bringing back crying with snot. That is, unironically, my gold standard for a convincing crying scene.