Eleven years ago, the then Pope Benedict XVI.
of all bishops' conferences worldwide that they should give themselves guidelines on how to deal with cases of sexual abuse.
The public has not yet heard what became of this initiative.
Accountability for dealing with the issue of abuse does not occur to anyone in the Vatican.
Then why should bishops' conferences do it?
They reacted, without exception, when the media-mediated pressure from the public and politicians forced them to act.
That's how it was in France and Portugal recently, and that's how it is now in Spain.
The resistance there is particularly great, since the Opus Dei organization has been a fixture in state and church since the days of the Franco dictatorship.
This explains not only the hesitation of the bishops' conference, but also the blocking attitude of the "bourgeois" parties.
Now, however, a respected Spanish law firm is to draw up an abuse report at the interface between church and state.
What's more, the fact that they consulted the expertise of the Munich law firm WSW should not only be understood as proof of independence, but also as a warning.
Anyone who took on the former Pope Benedict and Cardinal Woelki from Cologne should also stir up dust in Spain.