"If a true act of humility were to be undertaken such as I have proposed 'the damage would be dealt with' now"
Perhaps we are talking past each other.  You seem to be focusing on the damage to the church and I am focusing on the terrible psychological damage to the victims.  Right now, the Church's strategy is pretty words, grudging financial payoff, and waiting for the abusers and abused to die off.  Unless the Church can repair - concretely and unambiguously - the psychological damage it has caused, there will be no new structures, just the old corrupt structures.  Or to use an unhappy metaphor, as long as Law's retirement community is the Vatican, the institutional Church is rotten to the core.