[ultima ratio]

"You might find it completely incredible, but sometimes, all it takes is waving a stick."

Your response says it all. You--and others who think like you, including Vatican functionaries--think because the Pope is accessible to the young as a celebrity, this is somehow sufficient to make up for a woeful worldwide poverty of catechesis. It isn't. There is need for this Pontiff to address the failures on the diocesan level--and by extension, on the level of the local parish. If he can't or won't impose discipline, he is himself a failure--no matter how accessible he is personally.

[St.Chuck]

I think you missed my point, but moving on....regarding abuses at the diocesan level, perhaps the pope subscribes to the principle of subsidiarity.