If you did pay attention,you would know that it took ten years to silence them on the subject of homosexuality, an issue on which they were twisting and spinning Truth and calling it Catholic teaching. And even after the ten years,they only silenced half of the team.
I think the whole Call To Action army sent individual letters saying that Nugent and Grammick never said what they were accused of saying. Of course they were being deceitful, nonetheless it took 10 years when finally Father Nugent ceased. Grammick is still supported by her coven or convent or whatever the gang she belongs to is called.
I just can't believe you are as naive as you appear to be when it comes to why the Pope can't say abracadabra and make liars and deceivers disappear. Get a job in government for a few years and you will begin to get a glimmer of what the Pope and Catholic Cardinals and Bishops are up against. And government principals in most cases aren't even held to a standard of decency let alone personal sanctity.
I don't buy your argument since he doesn't do what is immediately under his control. Nobody twisted his arm to organize Assisi--twice. Nobody twisted his arm to give the pectoral cross to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Nobody twisted his arm to invite our cardinals to Rome to address child sex abuse scandal--only to treat it as a p.r. stunt. Granted it may take years to silence some small fries in Chicago--but what is stopping him from silencing somebody like Kasper who does far more harm right there in the Vatican? For two thousand years popes kept a tight ship doctrinally--why all of a sudden all these loose cannons?