His “worst overseas visit since his election” in 2013. This was how a leading newspaper in neighbouring Argentina, Clarín, described Pope Francis’s three-day visit to Chile last week. The pontiff’s stopover in Chile was always likely to be challenging: the credibility of the Catholic Church, which had links to the dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), had received a further blow in Chile due to a sex abuse scandal which made headlines in 2015. While Pope Francis initially reached out to these victims, his final words in the country are widely considered to have done further harm.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1090 words.
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