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I would have to add to your list:

Anyone, including Cardinals or Bishops, who has enabled a fellow priest, passively or actively, to molest a child, must resign.

God will forgive them if they are repentant; but maintaining these people in positions of authority within the Church is no longer an option, if the Church is truly desirous of recovering its credibility.

Ask yourself: how can any lay person ever trust these clergy, such as Law, again? Christ called us to be faithful to his doctrines, and not to a person who has corrupted his doctrine. I'm not suggesting vengeance -- I'm urging that the Church must stop the bleeding, before it dies. Remember Christ's anger with the moneychangers in the Temple? I think most Catholics can relate to that state of mind today.

You make an excellent point. Anyone involved in the scandal, or covering up the scandal, or "turning the other cheek" while children were harmed need to leave their office. My heart goes out to the children and their families, and to the good and holy priests who have never done anything like this or even thought of doing anything like this.

The church is good, some members of the church are evil. We need to keep that in mind. And we must do what we can to remove the evil members. They can, and should, seek repentance, and be sorrowful and repentant in their heart for their sins against God, and crimes against children. But because of the trust issue, while some may be truly repentant, they can not be put in a position of temptation again.

God bless.