Old Man to be replaced by another Old Man

It appears that the Catholic Church is having yet another restricted election on who gets to be next  Pope.

With all of the modern technology that is available, why do a bunch of generally old men, average age of around 72 need to go to the Vatican to elect a new Pope?

Note: Only Cardinals younger than 80 are allowed to vote, if the 80+'s were allowed to vote, the average age would move up to around 78.

More important than this, can the Catholic Church continue to insist that women have no place in the positions of power in the Church hierarchy?

What would be a "good" first act for the next Pope, would be to reach out to all of the people who have been sexually abused by "celibates" in position of authority in the Church; firstly by apologising unreservedly to all of those people damaged by this abuse and secondly setting up a truth and reconciliation commission to reveal and remove all abusers from the Catholic Church.

However, this would be most unlikely to happen. given that even some senior members of the Catholic Church accused of, "coverups of cases of child molestation", are at the Vatican to vote. Notwithstanding this, the Catholic Church has a history of cover-ups and inaction stretching back through recent decades and in almost every country.

So given this unflattering history, there is little or no chance that the new kid (ha - ed) on the block would want to shine a light on this particularly dark underbelly of the Catholic Church.