Pope Francis has called all the Catholic bishops of Spain to a meeting at the Vatican later this month, an extremely rare convocation that has not occurred since a similar meeting in 2018 with the entire episcopate of Chile.
The Spanish Bishops' Conference (CEE) announced on October 31 that the summit with the pope would take place on November 28.
They made the news public following extraordinary plenary assembly to discuss the conclusions of an independent report, issued a few days earlier, on sexual violence in the Spanish Church.
That report estimates that since 1970, 1.13% of Spaniards have been victims of sexual assault in an ecclesiastical environment when they were minors.