Spain's Catholic bishops have apologized again for sex abuses committed by members following a report by the national ombudsman that accused the church of widespread negligence.
The president of the Spanish Bishops Conference, Cardinal Juan José Omella, attends a press conference in Madrid, on Tuesday, Oct. 31 2023. Spain’s Catholic bishops on Monday apologized again for sex abuses committed by church members following a report by Spain’s Ombudsman that accused the church of widespread negligence on the matter.
He added that the church would continue working “together on the comprehensive reparation of the victims, on supporting them and deepening the path to their protection and, above all, the prevention of abuse.”Spanish soccer official who kissed unwilling star player is banned for three yearsThe bishops said the church would contribute to any economic reparation program once it included all victims of child sexual abuse, not just those abused within the church itself.
Included in the report was a survey based on 8,000 valid phone and online responses. The poll found that 1.13% of the Spanish adults questioned said they were abused as children either by priests or lay members of the church, including teachers at religious schools. The poll said 0.6% identified their abusers as clergy members.
Omella said the media’s extrapolation of the survey results “does not correspond to the truth.” The church maintained that going by the survey’s figures, some 4 million Spaniards, or 11.7 % of the adult population, may have been abused as minors in all, a figure it considered to be “barbaric”, suggesting it was not credible.
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