Just maybe Pope Francis doesn't want to be too popeish as popes customarily have been in the past; and; that he expects personal consciences of cardinals to rise to the task of personal responsibility and for them to take action and respond in people-interest - NOT - so much in institutional self-interests.
Pope Francis isn't a king-type of pope; he thinks less 'autocracy' and more 'democracy' perhaps. Cardinals, like people, are expected to have consciences of their own and to use them.
AMERICA, Jan. 2, 2017, "Called to Conscience", pg. 14; (applies also to cardinals :-).