Then, what is needed is not an advisory group for the Pope, but the power and umph of a dicastory/congregation behind it.  Perhaps members of this advisory group should be incorporated under or as a Vatican Congregation.  I also wonder if members of the group should also be appointed to the CDF, Congregation for Bishops, and Congregation for Clergy, and the highest levels of the Roman Rota, perhaps even the Apostolic Signatura.  Yes, lay people appointed to positions within these congregations specifically to coordinate the work of these parts of the Vatican with the work of addressing child sex abuse.  Titles equivalent to "bishop" and "cardinal" should be created for lay people.

I would recommend that Tom Doyle be appointed to the advisory group and to the Apostolic Signatura.  He is a canon lawyer and he certainly know about sex abuse within the Catholic Church.  Francis could make him a cardinal so he has equal power to other cardinals.

A dream?