We’ve all known administrators who were hired to do a certain job, but when they found they couldn’t do that job, they either tried to do everyone else’s job or else tried to change the job into something else completely. This problem is not uncommon, for example, among functionaries who do fund-raising for colleges. They get themselves hired promising that they can sell ice cubes to Eskimos, but then when you ask them to sell a solid liberal arts education to students who desperately need one, they change the subject and then try to change the institution.
Something similar now appears to be happening among some bishops when it comes to marriage and divorce. They were put into a position to do a very difficult job: protect the institution of marriage in a culture that has largely forgotten what marriage is. Finding that job exceedingly difficult, some of them want to change the subject and then change the institution.
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