The mafia/lobby doesn't want to root itself out.   And most of the pope's allies are part of it.  

He'd be undercutting his own program church-change by rooting out the prelates who are either participants in the gross and illegal and immoral and corrosive behavior of the fragile few, or who have, in St Peter Damian's language, have themselves become so degenerate they have "forgotten their own identity".

Those words about "identity" were so insightful and prescient.