From 8th Feb transcript: an interesting comment by Abp. Coleridge about relationship between bishop and priests:- “..the relationship..is quite unusual..A priest is not an employee of mine. It is a bit like the government appointing a judge. The government appoints the judge, but once..appointed, she or he has a quality of independence that is quite unusual. So I appoint priests, but not as employees. They have a quality of independence. It's not unlike bishops and the Pope..The Pope, in the end, formally appoints me, but I'm not his branch manager. Once I am appointed bishop, I'm conceded a great deal, perhaps an excessive amount, of independence. The Catholic Church in general…is a most unusual and mysterious combination of the decentralised and the centralised, and I suspect the Commissioners have come to see this through their many hearings. In some ways, we are a very centralised community - Church, worldwide. In other ways, we are extraordinarily, even alarmingly, decentralised.”