It’s the slippery slope. Started when they made Trump’s lawyers testify against him.
Nobody will confess to those sins if they are not confidential. The only ones doing so will be reporters
or prosecutors to see if they can catch a priest not reporting them.
What did the Catholic Church expect civil authorities to do? The Catholic Church should have been doing the right thing from the very start, but did they? No. The Catholic Church hid criminality.