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
Hold on, you seriously believe that the purpose of the catholic church is to promote pedophilia?
Your choice of using the word “promote” is interesting, I would not have chosen it as their intent is to hide it.
The catholic church has certainly protected pedophiles for hundreds of years, so that is a function they perform very well.