He went toe to toe with Cardinal Bernardin over the "Call to Action" plan Bernardin had and he is perceived by the media as one of the more "conservative" Cardinals, loyal to the Pope. OTOH, the Archdiocese has been a mess for years, the so-called Catholic colleges here are teaching heterodoxy and we have more liberal priests and nuns running around teaching 'new age' type stuff and I just read that the number of marriage annulments granted here are far outnumber any other diocese in the US. I haven't even mentioned our "Catholic" polititians.
He's a great example of why this crisis is not cut and dried.