MADRID, Spain -- Spain's bishops apologised on Monday after a report estimated more than 200,000 minors had been sexually abused by the country's Roman Catholic clergy since 1940.
But the Spanish Episcopal Conference said the numbers mentioned in the report, by an independent commission,"do not correspond to the truth".
"The abuses committed in the Church hurt. The extrapolation made from the data obtained in a survey attached to the report is also surprising," it added. Unlike in other nations, in Spain -- a traditionally Catholic country that has become highly secular -- clerical abuse allegations only recently started to gain traction, leading to accusations by survivors of stonewalling.The country's Catholic Church declined to take part in the probe, although it did provide documents on cases of sexual abuse.
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