The Commission of Bishops of France has decided to compensate the victims of the clergy's pederastia financially by opening a "compensation fund" for this purpose. The intention is to sell the real estate and furniture of the diocese and have announced that they will request credits "if not enough", according to the Ministry. Catholics will not make use of donations received from the Church. The chairman of the committee, Eric de Mouline – Beaufort, has stated that they want to “liberate” themselves from the damage caused by compensation: “Great pain has been done and must be accepted to free those who have suffered the pain and our Church.”

Systemic pederastia

Last October, the CIESA independent committee published a study on sexual assault on the French Catholic Church. They concluded that since 1950, at least 330,000 children were attacked by clergy and lay people linked to the church, of them at least 25 in the diocese of Baiona. According to the report, at least 2% of the priests have been paedophiles in the last 70 years. In addition, the authors of the document denounced that the church showed "cruel indifference" towards the victims until the 2000s. They called on the Catholic Church to “take responsibility” and “pay damages”; now the bishops have responded, after a week meeting. They have acknowledged that pederastia has been “systemic” in the Church.

On the contrary, the Spanish Catholic Church is closed to all research. In most European states cases of ecclesiastical pederastia are being investigated, with the exception of Italy and Spain. The Spanish Episcopal Commission reported in October that it does not intend to investigate any of the sexual assaults on minors. The chairman of the committee, Luis Arguello, explained that the complaints received in the last year have been "minimal". However, they do not want anyone to investigate the Spanish Catholic Church, nor have they even allowed access to documents to external committees of inquiry.