Get your facts right. It was the Congregation for the Clergy who tackled this issue in 1997 under Cardinal Castrillon de Hoyos, not the CDF under Cardinal Ratzinger. There was no blanket order forbidding the Irish hierarchy from reporting cases to the police, there was advice to ensure that there were no violations of Canon Law in dealing with this issue which might have been prejudicial the bishops, to the accused and to the victims.
If anyone is re-writing history it is you just as you are won't to re-write Catholic teaching.
Here is a link to the issue.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/vatican-warned-bishops-not-to-report-child-abuse
Naturally, I don't expect you to give any credence to this but I post it for the benefit of fair minded readers on this site.