The Cremades office says it asked the Vatican for the names of 300 priests reported for abuse and still has no response

They will deliver an executive summary to the bishops "in the coming days"

MADRID, 11 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Cremades law firm

As sources from the Cremades law firm have explained to Europa Press

The same sources point out that without this response it is difficult to "contrast" whether those 300 names are already included in one of the lists they manage or if they are other cases. "That is delaying things," they pointed out.

In any case, they have assured that in "the next few days" the office will deliver to the Spanish Episcopal Conference "an executive summary", although the complete report, which they expect to have around 2,000 pages, will be delivered "before the end of the year." .

From the firm they ask for "patience" because they remember that the topic investigated is a "very delicate" matter and that requires them to be "rigorous and meticulous." Furthermore, they have specified that the period of one year, initially set, was "indicative" and that the work has turned out to be "quite more complex" than they thought.

This is what the legal firm has stated after this Wednesday the Spanish Episcopal Conference confirmed that they have sent a letter to the law firm giving the Cremades office a period of 10 days to deliver the report on sexual abuse of minors in the Church, a audit that the bishops themselves commissioned more than a year and a half ago, in February 2022.

In a letter sent this Tuesday by the CEE to the law firm, the Episcopal Conference warns that, if this 10-day period is not met, they will understand that the conditions of the contract have been breached.

On September 28, the secretary general of the EEC, Francisco César García Magán, announced that the Spanish bishops expected to receive "in two weeks" the report commissioned from the law firm, according to the firm's own forecast. However, 15 days have passed since then and the bishops have not received the document.

The report was expected last March, one year after the start of work by the law firm, then the delivery was postponed to June and has not yet been presented. In any case, the CEE spokesperson indicated that "the delay is not due" to the bishops and that they do not like that the delivery has been delayed.

However, he insisted that it does not depend on the EEC and that they had not wanted to "interfere" in the way the Cremades office works.

As the spokesman for the bishops pointed out, once the report is received, it will have to be studied by the members of the Executive Commission of the EEC and presented to the rest of the bishops and society.

In any case, if the 10-day period required by the EEC is met, the receipt of the document would coincide with the Synod of Bishops, which began last October 4 in Rome and in which the president of the EEC and cardinal participates. Archbishop of Barcelona, ​​Juan José Omella, so this could add "another calendar difficulty."