From April 15, those who have suffered sexual abuse in the past by members of the Catholic Church or in any other religious sphere will be able to opt for reparation overseen by the Ombudsman. Despite the system's imperfections, which do not include some of the victims' demands, yesterday's signing of the protocol should be read as a new success for this victims' movement that, for some years now, has managed to have the damage recognized and responsibilities accepted. The protocol establishes how people who until now could not go to justice because their case had expired or because the abuser had already died will be able to opt for reparation. And, most importantly, the arbiter will not be the same ecclesiastical institution within which the abuses were committed, and which has systematically denied or minimized them until very recently, but rather it will be the state, through the figure of the Ombudsman, that will act as arbiter and will ultimately decide what the restoration should consist of, which will largely be economic.

We started the week before Christmas stuck in Groundhog Day: Sanchez on the ropesThe PP against its impotence and Catalan politics subordinated to what happens in Madrid, with Isla, as if he were a smaller piece in a set of Russian dolls, presiding over the Generalitat with the distant support of Esquerra i Comuns, and with Junts living in its own impotence.

These times do not allow us to underestimate the fact that two actors in public life defend dialogue and criticize polarization, which is what the president of the Spanish bishops, Luis Argüello, and President Salvador Illa concluded yesterday at an event in Madrid. But Argüello excelled: "I'm taking a photo with Isla where a few months ago I took one with [Santiago] Abascal and I'm not ashamed of either of them." Man, that's very kind.

During his visit to Madrid last year to celebrate the Diada, Salvador Illa sent a clear message. With him as president of the Generalitat (Catalan government), Catalonia will not renounce occupying any space or establishing any relationship with state institutions, as the independence movement had done. He demonstrated this then with a meeting with King Felipe VI at the Zarzuela Palace, after nine years of government snubs, and he did so again this year by approaching the Spanish Episcopal Conference, chaired by the conservative Luis Argüello, known for his strong criticism of Pedro Sánchez. The Catalan socialist leader spoke for an hour with Argüello at the invitation of the Pablo VI Foundation and the Comillas Pontifical University, in a public event that its organizers have hailed as "a gateway to hope that we can move forward in harmony, civic responsibility, and faith in a context of political polarization."