No. All institutions within a State quite properly have their own internal rules, and that includes sporting and religious organisations. The civil laws of most States operate without reference to such rules, and at times will even help to enforce them, eg, where a member is treated contrary to those rules. The problem arises when internal rules require the members to break the civil law. That is what the pontifical secret under canon law required from 1922 to 2010 (2002 for the U.S.) where there were civil reporting laws. The Vatican’s having two hats as a foreign State and head of an international organisation has created a problem. In its 2014 response to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Vatican claimed that it was only responsible for the children living within the Vatican City despite the fact that it was dealing with the sexual abuse of children all over the world while wearing its other hat.