Step? Someone is being very disingenuous with that claim, as it’s more like a quantum leap, and even that may be understating it.
Naah, this is nothing. This anti-Pope actively defended a convicted pedo while in SAmerica.
And, the entire Vatican routinely looks the other way while priests violate their oath of celibacy to Gawd. The only place on earth more deserving of a meteor strike is DC.