Thank you for your comments. Two things I will say in response: a) I think it fair to say that Catholics throughout the world have grown tired of apologies, expressions of regret etc which in too many cases sounds self-referential. 

What people are looking for is transparency, and accountability in gestures of repentance from the Pope to the local bishops for the crimes of clerical child sexual abuse, for the shocking damage done to entire families and acknowledgement of Institutional cover ups; b) the excision from Canon Law of  'Secreta Continere' which enjoins the Pontifical secret on bishops and Leaders of religious institutes  and forbids them from handing over a pedophile cleric to civil authorities except in jurisdictions which require mandatory reporting.

The leadership of the Catholic Church has, since the secrecy legislation of Pius XI in 1922, been complicit by commission or omission, in the cover up of child sexual abuse by clergy.

Mass resignations would be prophetic.