News,

Which of these two scenarios do you think most of the world (including Catholics) believe to be more scandalous:
1: Priests who have dedicated their lives to serve the people in a diocese object to the selection of a bishop from somewhere else to run their diocese, or
2: Decades (if not centuries-long) of the problem of predatory priests sexually abusing children, and church leadership that systematically chosing to protect the priests over the children?

I can't help but sense that it's the pope here who is choosing to use church law to conveniently protect HIS power.  

So to answer your post, I'd offer this.  I think Francis is the one making the convenient interpretation here.  A convenience that doesn't make sense, unless one sees the law as something rather divorced from basic human morality...