People pretending to serve God when they're really just serving their own greed and desires, or pursuing their own obsessions and ideals instead of His will.
The cardinal's choices are faithless and disloyal.
It's not true faithfulness or loyalty if you betray someone's will and desires in a bid to increase their fame and followers; it's a false kind of faith and trust that claims violations of their heart and ideals/teachings are required and acceptable in the pursuit of their goals/instructions.
That's not "the church", that's an example of a bunch of scammers and selfish zealots playing with people's faith.