That's very disturbing. This is what I do not understand about Roman Catholicism. You have a CARDINAL who openly defies Church teaching, and disciplines priests for being orthodox.... and he's not disciplined or removed?
Non-Catholics usually imagine the Catholic Church as a top-down autocracy, in which the pope fires off orders and everyone salutes. It just isn’t like that. It never has been.
A metropolitan archbishop has certain rights, which cannot be simply swept aside, short of manifest schism with the Roman pontiff. In practice, a chief reason many bishops go squishy is because the people have lost the faith and no longer insist on his orthodoxy. In a healthy church, bishop and people sustain each other. In this faithless day, that is pretty rare.