Yes, some of the ties are stronger and some are weaker. All the detail is shown and people can decide the appropriate remedy depending on the situation.
But in your case, you seem to be turning around and launching salvos at the Cardinal Newman Society for even putting this information out there, an extremely uncharitable and even anti-Catholic response.
Ridiculous. I was more than "charitable" when I described this story as "strained". In fact, it's intellectually vacant.
What is "preposterous" is that anyone would take an article seriously that contains the phrase, "..documented on the internet". It's oxy-moronic.
I'll repeat my thesis, religious institutions of higher learning that are committed to academic excellence will employ people who aren't adherents of the universities religious orthodoxy. It's pitifully ignorant to then try to "tie" the activities of those professors to the university.