When he fires Bernard Law, maybe the non RC world will take him seriously.
He won't "fire" Cardinal Law. Cardinal Law has retired from active ministry. My suggestion is that non-Catholics mine their own business. Catholics,speaking for myself, don't care one bit if they take him "seriously." His authority does not rest on the "non-RC"world.
Bernard LAW did get fired.
You aparently do not understand the vast disparity of prestige between the status of an American Metropolitan Archbishop -- with staff and budget and consequent power commensurate -- and that of Archpriest of a Roman basilica. It's more honor than the man deserves (or needs), but still he's little more than the pastor of a parish church. He has been stripped of his finest feathers, and knows it.