Burns eventually pleaded guilty to criminal charges of sexually assaulting two boys in New Hampshire, and was sentenced to two consecutive four- to eight-year terms in jail. This statement is really, practically speaking and in the context of the article, a lie, because it seems to imply that Burns was convicted "eventually" sometime well after the Papal decree in question.
In fact, he had been convicted three years before the decree.
God bless you for correcting a slander against the Holy Father. The Church has enough problems; the last thing we need is for more critics to go off half-cocked because of incomplete information.