I hope you're right. I've always considered Cardinal Collins to be fairly left wing, and I would have expected him to be in favor of the "Kasper Doctrine". I'm glad to see he's not, and that other prominent cardinals and bishops were not, either. It does give me some hope that the synod will not go off the rails. Nevertheless... while canon law is clear, it can be changed on the whim of the pope, and this pope is prone to whims.
Pray we must! I would think that the priests themselves would be not in favor of it. They are judged differently from the rest of us.