The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.
https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-excommunicate-priests-following-new-us-state-law-2069039
Why isn’t everyone a mandatory reporter for any crime?
There have been numerous societies in history where ratting out one’s neighbors was expected behavior. None of them were fit places for people to live.