"I'd absolutely no idea my name might emerge, and it didn't really until the day of the election," he said. Asked if he knew why he had been cassated, DiNoia replied that in the order, the higher superior, "unlike canon law, does not have to provide explanation and that's something we adhere to. "The reasons, no one knows. People have speculated," he said, "chiefly on my positions with the bishops conference, and the importance of my role as theology professor -- there aren't that many of us -- at the Dominican House of Studies. Certainly I wouldn't have been able to continue to do either of those things." He said he had not spoken to the master, "and perhaps when we speak he might say things personally, to me. But working `for the good of the church, the good of the order' are standard considerations that would enter in," he said.