The infrastructure's ritualization and bureaucratization of process means that lay leaders are seen as not having the skills to take over in decision-making areas, but I think collective experience will show that they are prevented from developing those skills by the urgency of the work they do, which leads to the Catholic missionaries working at peak levels of decision-making, leaving little time and opportunity for the people to take over.

In the case of the Lay Council and the Bishops, the same concern that lack of skills and overview will prevent the best outcomes leads the Bishops to hold on to power, and provides the Lay Council with little opportunity to develop those skills in direct relationship to the Church.