Before the leadership of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (Omela, Osorro and Arguello) travels to Rome, where on Thursday Pope Francis will deliver a speech on the fight against violence in the church and the demands of the victims.
On Wednesday, the firm introduced audit officials who will investigate sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church, as well as those who will prepare external reports. There are 28 members of the “Recognized International Prestige” and two unexpected names: former Mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena; And former director CountryJuan Luis Sebrian.
Their names were a big surprise at the press conference as most of the surnames had already been announced Country, Join others targeted by DR last week. As the firm’s president, Javier Cremades, has confirmed, Carmena will be responsible for studying the victim’s experience perspective, while Cebrian will work on the media dimension of the problem. They will be joined by Pedro Strecht, who is in charge of the investigation into the Portuguese Church, and another expert, Encarnación Roca, who points to civil liability and compensation for victims, although Javier Cremades has admitted that “it will not be. For us ”to decide about them and whether it will be each diocese or congregation, which in its case will have to take responsibility or not.
“We want to investigate the bottom and shed light,” Cremades said. “We have learned a lot in these six weeks (since they signed a contract that is not yet public, with the EEC), largely thanks to contact with the victims,” he admitted.
“We have created a particularly competent and pluralistic team,” Kremades said, noting that they were able to meet “virtually every association and institution that works with victims and demands justice, truth and compensation.” Although most of the associations said they did not want to work with the firm, Kremades noted that “all of them have their doors open, always” and noted that the only association that did not want to meet. They were Infancia Robada. To date, they have received up to fifty calls from victims.
Cooperation with the Ombudsman
The firm promised that it would “facilitate the work of the commission that the ombudsman intends to set up. “We are not here for competition, but for cooperation,” he said. He did not disclose whether the bishops would finally attend, as the leadership of the Episcopal Conference might point out tomorrow, after meeting with Pope Francis. “This commission is in good hands,” said Kremades, who claimed to have spoken to Gabon.
“We do not have time to do this wrong,” said Cremades, who claimed to have met with three bishops (from Malaga, Santiago de Compostela and Madrid) and officials in charge of the victims’ offices. “The independence of this working group speaks for itself. In 11 months we are going to publish a paper that should reflect the truth, offer measures for reparation and the future. ”
Finally, the commission will have 28 members, including 12 international personalities, and will be headed by Cremades himself, although the legal “leg” will be headed by Alfredo Dagnino. As expected, some of them are investigators of the Munich violence or Pedro Strecht, head of the Portuguese Church Violence Commission, who congratulated the press on their work and asked them not to “shut up”.
“Historical change”
“This is a historic change, not just in the Catholic Church (we owe it to Pope Francis), but all over the world. “Assume the mistakes of the past and build the future,” the expert said, stressing “the importance of talking to all victims.”
In his speech, Javier Cremades stressed that the audit works around three parts: first, facts, data; Second, the future reparation of victims, which, he acknowledged, “will not affect us”; Finally, “How to prevent these cases from happening again in the future.”
Javier Cremedes will also have attorneys Martin Push and Ulrich Westley, from the office conducting the investigation in Munich. They will also be joined by Patricia Lee Refo, former president of the American Bar Association; Carolina Marin Pedreno, British firm from Dawson Cornwell; Katarina Miller, President of the European Women Lawyers Association; Juan Carlos Gutierrez, a Venezuelan lawyer from the Cremades office; M. Velasquez, American firm Paul Weiss; Costa Rican psychologist Marina Penia; Or Juan Pablo Gallego, an Argentine lawyer who led a lawsuit against the priest Julio Cesar Grass.
With them, the Cremades team itself, which, How Digital Religion DevelopedCoordinated by Alfredo Dagnino, former President of the ACdP (Catholic Association of Propagandists) and Secretary General of the Educatio Servanda Foundation.
The Spanish investigation will have much more to do with German than French, as the bishops want to avoid projecting data that could lead to a scandalous figure. If the estimated number of victims in secular France exceeds 330,000, the prognosis of “Catholic” (at least in Franco’s time) Spain may be higher, so the model will not conduct a thorough investigation.
The French bishops are discussing the severity of the victims’ compensation this week (in January, they set up a fund to pay at least € 20 million to the survivors), something that our country church is not even considering at the moment. . This, in fact, will be one of the requests that the Spanish bishops address to the Pope this Thursday.
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Source: El Diario
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