Spanish bishops clash with government over abuse victims’ financial compensation plan
July 11, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The Spanish Episcopal Conference has announced a Comprehensive Reparation Plan for Victims of Abuse.
The plan is “a subsidiary plan when the legal avenue has already been exhausted,” said Archbishop Luis Argüello of Valladolid, president of the bishops’ conference. “When the legal avenues have been closed for the victims,” he said, the Church “wants to keep the door open to listen to any victim and respond.”
Officials of Spain’s Socialist government decried the plan as inadequate— as did a victims’ group.
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