I think you misunderstood, tricky Dick is what is called in laymens terms "two faced"...my personal opinion of the man is not very good, I wonder if the Church would not benefit from his laicization, but I have seen things others have not so please form your own opinion.
Two-faced or not, he certainly knows which side his bread is buttered. The pope is a gentleman, but he knows that he is old and has only a limited time to get things in order. His advantage over John Paul is that he has been able to look at the whole church from the vantage point of Rome. It probably took Pope John Paul five years before he saw how extensive the problems were, and he was focused on Poland. If he had n't been, then he might have taken on the Society of Jesus et al.