Cardinal Ladaria was actually an ok Jesuit pick for his office. He wasn’t particularly brave but was also one of the more orthodox Jesuits on shear academic achievement alone.
Know a few Jesuits who knew him personally.
Ok for a Jesuit is like Ok for a Democrat. Tolerable examples exist, but if you find them in an office of any significance you need to ask why.
I was in a parish that had a couple of good Jesuit curates when I was growing up, met Father Hardon, and have a good friend who is a relatively young Jesuit.
I’m just waiting for Pope Francis to canonize Clement XIV.
He’s a Spaniard (like St Ignatius) and also Catalan from Majorca...an island that produced a huge number of the Franciscan and other missionaries who converted the New World (or the Spanish possessions, at any rate, including Florida).
He was orthodox but timid. I think nothing in his scholarly background had prepared him to deal with a Pope who was not supportive of orthodoxy, and he really didn’t know what to do.
But he’s a Spaniard and they’re proud and I think he felt used. This is a very brave thing to do now. He is essentially showing that he won’t participate in the Synod because nothing about it will be orthodox teaching and he doesn’t want to be used again to make people believe that it is.