Flocculencio
Donor
I definitely understand what you mean about the bishops. Each time one shows up at church it seems like everyone goes apeshit. Heck people will wait for a good hour after the service just to get a blessing from him. I still remember having quite a few arguments with my dad over it when I was younger. His entire argument boiled down to he is ordained to be a bishop by God and therefore getting a blessing from him somehow gets you into the inside track. I finally gave up when I realised that no matter what I said about him being a man, the fact of the matter was you cannot overturn tradition.
Hell, my dad's serving as Vice-President of the church here in Singapore and he's tearing his hair out trying to get anything done because every decision either has to go all the way back to India and the bishop in charge of SE Asia and Australia or gets squashed by a few traditionalists in meetings.