I was just thinking about that. Ask Joe Paterno how that worked out. Oh, you can’t. He died shortly after being disgraced.
Catholic bishops may not HAVE to report to civil authorities, but they damn well better or their dioceses will go bankrupt from the civil judgements.
In Pennsylvania if you even SUSPECT sexual abuse of a minor might be going on, and you fail to report it, you have committed a crime.
That is the new standard. I am an usher at a Catholic church, and that is the training WE were all put through.
Apparently the Pope did not show up for his.
I suspect that law will not survive it’s first contact with Sharia though.