The president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), Juan José Omella, announced this Wednesday that the Church has delivered to the Ombudsman six volumes “of reflection” with all the data collected from dioceses and religious congregations on cases of abuse of minors .
This has been stated in an interview on RNE collected by EFE in which he explained that this afternoon he met with the Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, to whom he has delivered this information.
“He had not asked us, but we have compiled all the protocols that both the religious and the Spanish dioceses have and we have presented six volumes of reflection with all the data we have to continue collaborating in eradicating the scourge of child abuse,” he said. detailed Omella.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Barcelona explained that the coordination and advice service for the diocesan offices and religious congregations of the EEC has shared the data provided by the dioceses and has offered them to the Ombudsman. “We have given what we have so far,” he said.
Sources from the Ombudsman have confirmed to EFE that Omella and Gabilondo have held a meeting this afternoon and that the Ombudsman has collected the information provided by the EEC and has indicated that they will need time to analyze it.
On March 13, during the presentation of the Ombudsman’s Report in the Congress of Deputies, Gabilondo advanced that they had begun to request information from the dioceses for their investigation into cases of abuse in the Church and said that this was “the time of the facts” and to verify the level of collaboration of this institution.
“Everything is in a process that allows me to think that the Church is going to collaborate,” said Gabilondo then, who explained that some dioceses had already begun to respond to their request.
