You're right about Pope Francis being effectively complicit protecting the 'honor' of the priesthood at the expense of the dignity of children raped by the clergy. He is capable of turning this around by one dramatic gesture: expunging the Pontifical Secret from Canon Law. Kieran Tapsell and others have argued this at length, persuasively and repeatedly here on the pages of NCR.
Bishops can say sorry till they are blue in the face. The apologies will take on congruence and credibility when the Pope backs up his calls for sorry days by getting rid of the source of the even more scandalous dimension of the problem which is that the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is Canonically forbidden to report paedophile clergy except in those very few civil jurisdictions in the world that require mandatory reporting. 
I think Pope Francis still holds the arrogant view that it is all an 'Anglo' problem. There will be an education when the paedophilia lid blows off Asia, Latin America and Africa