ANY society as familiar with the choreography around the grand sacraments of Catholicism as this one is will easily understand the power of symbolism. 

A judge has accused a man who describes himself as a bishop of making a fool of a 17-year-old by pretending that he had married him and taking money from him under false pretences.

Renegade bishop Michael Cox charged a teenage couple — one of them underage — €100 for a ‘sham’ marriage.