The Vatican is FINALLY getting about cleaning out the bishops of California and replacing them with Catholics. Gomez replaced Mahoney in Los Angeles and first Vigneron and then Cordileone at Oakland and now Cordileone at San Fransicko. I imagine as with Texas and Illinois and Wisconsin and other troubled areas, the process will continue nationally until Catholicism is restored nationally.
Did you follow the links? My "looked promising" comment was a reference to posts offered by Catholics on this 2005 thread. Niederauer's appointment didn't look so promising to me (or you, apparently), but I'm not trying to explain or justify others' comments made back in 2005. I'm just tossing them out for comparison to this years' comments about Cordileone.