It’s good to see conservative bishops moving up as opposed to the 1970 - 1995 era when Cardinals Deardon and Bernadine almost destroyed the church in the U.S.
That was more than a little like the Henrican Reformation supervised by Archbishop Cranmer. This is so many in the Church hated Ratzinger. A leader of the liberal wing during the council,he backed away from the rash reforms that followed the Council, especially after the events of 1968. As result he came to be regarded as a traitor to their cause. Whast he rejected, had never accepted, was the modernist spirit of the reformers. When John Paul II came to the throne, as a young and vigorous opponent, they realized that their revolution was in danger, especially he called Ratzinger to his side. A signal event was the publication of the Catechism. The priest scandal demonstrated the rottenness of modernism, but of course many liberals have drawn the opposite conclusion.