Yes. A reasoned and just criticism of the Pope's statement, and because it has taken the Pope too many years to make any sort of statement concerning a situation he has been well-aware of and which he gave tacit agreement to, I don't think he can be described as Noonan says, "a great man."
The Catholic Church in America ceased being an integral part of the main body of Roman Catholicism in the recent past. It has struck out on a road of its own and made its own rules. Neither Protestant nor orthodox Catholic, the purpose of its existence had become the aggredanizement of its all-powerful upper hierarchy. The mass of devoted and dedicated orthodox Catholic Christians and even Catholic clergymen, like those of their fellow-faiths in the Methodist, Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches, have been made victims of the moral relativism and political correctness of so many of our culture elites - religious, political, educational and otherwise.
Perhaps there is some goodness in even an evil event like this. Perhaps it will bring more Christian religions into a proper attitude of self-examination about what they are doing and what they SHOULD really be about.
I look forward to and eagerly anticipate the Holy Father's actions in taking his errant servants to task and meting out the judgement their errors have so richly merited.
Similar problems in Canada, Australia, Ireland ... but (I'm guessing) not in the Latin countries.