It didn’t. The problem is the Vatican tries way too hard to find something positive to say - even when there is NOTHING positive to say.
The Vatican is facing the age-old problem, Caesar trying to take over God.
BXVI knows what’s going on, and so do a lot of bishops, even in the US. But others would be perfectly happy with the New Improved American Patriotic Catholic Church, where Obama is a Henry VIII figure and the US president is forever after the head of the American Catholic Church. Along,of course, with being the caliph of the new caliphate...
There will be many treasonous bishops here, and they may not all be the ones you would expect. I read somewhere that the people being led out to martyrdom in Spain under the communists were not necessarily the people anybody would have dreamed of, while some of the more aggressive people had recanted and were worshipping at the feet of the left, and that this is common in periods of active martyrdom. It’s not always the people you’d think.
The faithful bishops just have to keep on preaching and the faithful laypeople and priests just have to keep on doing what they do.