These theologians suffered the ire of a pope[JP II] who didn't understand [no appreciation] of Western understanding of Vatican II and the status of the church in the later part of the 20th Century.  

The doctrines of the Church are not a set of statements on which theologians work in order to extract further understanding from them.  Rather the lived experiences of all the members of the Christian community is the source and norm of theology.  The theologians that were listed adhered to the concept of "sensus fidelium".    After all the Church, is the community of ALL the baptized.  JP II and Benedict were totally unable to comprehend that. And thus, these theologians were either silenced, censored, or investigated.  The unjust treatment that they received was a disgrace---and marks the complete failure of JP II and Benedict to understand the balance between the prophetic, priestly and kingly tensions in the church.