If (I will give him the benefit of the doubt) did not know about sexual abuse cases, then a lot of high ranking people in the Vatican surely did, as someone had to authorize million dollar payments.
Therefore he is responsible for their actions as well as the actual priests that committed the crime, if he does nothing, or does not try to find out what is going on, then he is just as guilty. (That’s why you need people at the top of organisations that are physically and mentally capable of doing their job).
However it seems some high-ranking people at the top of the Vatican, think they get more sympathy (and in turn money, from the followers) with an old man, who can barley speak. If he were physically and mentally able, the press would want to speak to him and not his aids.
Therefore I suggest the best thing to do for all concerned is for the Pope to announce the disbandment of the Catholic Church and all its assets and then he should step down, and become the last Pope of the Catholic Church, as we know it.
Thereby fulfilling the 3rd prophesy of Fatima, that John Paul would be the last Pope of the Catholic Church and would walk on its ruins.
We Catholics mark history by centuries and millenia and not by newspaper headlines. I am afraid you will have to learn to live with the stately pace of Vatican activity. It is quite traditional and ever more necessary due to due process standards imposed upon discipline by Canon Law. We aren't likely to hurry on your account.
The Mad Monk of Milwaukee, Rectalbert Weakland, leftist AmChurch prelate extraordinaire, personally authorized the payoff, er, payment to the younger "man" whom he had diddled or by whom he had been diddled in the approximate amount of $400 K to his young and apparently irresistible boytoy. The Vatican never approved that.
Do you suppose that the fact that the press wants to speak to a pope means that the press will get the interview? The press will get whatever interviews the pope sees fit to grant them and not one bit more.
There are over a billion Catholics in the world and JP II is not expected to micromanage them individually or even, for the most part, through Vatican bureaucracies.
The unparenthesized portion of your third paragraph does not follow logically from the facts or even from the planted axioms. Are you working from a papal job description familiar to the Vatican?
Fatima is private revelation and not required belief, although the Third Secret probably is nothing like what you suggest and seems more likely a suggestion of a papal martyrdom.
As to JP II disbanding the Chrurch, I would not hold my breath waiting if I were you since Jesus Christ Who founded the Catholic Church guaranteed that the Church would be here through the end and that the gates of hell will not prevail against her.
The last pope will be reigning and applauding on the day when Our Lord and Savior tosses Lucifer into the fiery pit once and for all.