Spain pushes Catholic Church to compensate abuse victims

Spain's left-wing government on Tuesday upped the pressure on the Catholic Church to compensate victims of sexual abuse committed on its watch.

MADRID, Spain - Spain 's left-wing government on Tuesday upped the pressure on the Catholic Church to compensate victims of sexual abuse committed on its watch.Unlike in other nations, clerical abuse allegations have only recently started to gain traction in Spain , once a deeply Catholic country which has become increasingly secular.

Spain's Catholic Church has ruled out taking part in such a fund if was only for compensating victims of ecclesiastical abuse, and not to abuse victims in any setting."The Church cannot accept a plan that discriminates against the majority of victims of sexual abuse," the CEE Episcopal Conference, which groups Spain's leading bishops, said Tuesday.

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