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.
Law doesn't deserve to be even a pastor of a parish church.