No kidding? That he asked for such a thing by name? That would be a scandal to any serious Christian organization, let alone the RCC.
If you want to get a fuller picture, obtain a copy of the thinly veiled (and quite compelling novel of JP II in the winter of his papacy under attack from all sides) novel: Windswept House by the late Fr. Malachi Martin which starts out with a chapter that will keep you awake for about a week that involves simultaneous black (satanic) Masses in South Carolina and in Europe facilitated in South Carolina (for his bishop) by a young but utterly corrupt priest apparently patterned after Bernardin, who in real life was originally incardinated as a priest for the diocese of Charleston, South Carolina.
Also, the despicable Fr. Andrew Greeley, full time porno novelist, part time pollster, and occasionally a practitioner of the priesthood, wrote an early novel about a Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, originally from South Carolina (there is a pattern here since South Carolina has the lowest percentage of Catholics of any state) whose sexual peccadilloes in South Carolina gave a priest (rather like Fr. Greeley) the leverage to refuse the cardinal's order that he return from his other professions to be a parish priest. The priest lets the cardinal know in no uncertain terms that every detail of the cardinal's youthful sexual indiscretions will be public fodder to destroy the cardinal if he further tries to disrupt the priest's chosen outside professions. Now, I can't say that either novel is an absolutely accurate rendition as to Cardinal Bernardin but the similarities are striking.