There is an enormous backstory here that is vitally important​.

I know Fr. Gerry McBrearity from my seminary days at St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore.  Theological College (TC) at CUA is a Sulpician seminary.  Just last year and due to the overreach of San Francisco Archbishop Sal Cordileone, the Sulpicians were discharged from St. Patrick's Seminary & University at Menlo Park, CA after leading the seminary for 118 years.  They officially left at the end of the May 2017 academic year.   Cordileone ran them out.  See the related NCR article: https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/sulpicians-withdraw-san-francisco-seminary

I am certain that McBrearity, TC, and the Sulpicians did not want the same thing to happen at CUA.  They caved.

In the age of Francis, this is so tragic.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  I don't see how the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. and Europe is not on a collision course.

Gerry, where the Sulpician prophetic voice?