Essentially, NCR joins the groundswell in the case against Francis, and why he should resign altogether or forthrightly end the self-inflicted wound to the Body of Christ - clerical sexual abuse.  As Kieran Tapsell underscores, quoting Bruce Duncan,  "Pope Francis’ very positive scorecard on issues such as climate change, poverty, inequality, violence and refugees, for which he has rightly been acclaimed. However, Pope Francis personally can do little about them. He can only encourage others to act..." What Francis can and must do, he won't  In fact, he continues to obstruct, "On 22 February 2013 the Holy See informed the Conference that mandatory reporting could apply to everyone else in the Church but not to clerics, and that the law imposing the pontifical secret still applied to them. "
Cf. http://johnmenadue.com/kieran-tapsell-a-different-scorecard-on-pope-francis/
More chance NCR's voice will reach an American RC audience.