You are so right, thanks. Yes, Cardinal Law was orthodox in what he said, but not in what he did - that goes for the abuse stuff and also the dissent in the parishes. He would have been pilloried had he been more forceful, that is correct I believe. What is hard to reconcile is how much people love JPII and a Padre Pio and a Mother Theresa but still pillory those who are trying to walk the same walk as the aforementioned while leading their diocese with them.
Human beings are sure screwed up. I can't figure them out.
Plenty of nuns and priests out there who hate the pope. In their eyes he committed the greatest sin of all: he denied them the absolute power they crave.