Riot police officers arrest a protester during a demonstration in Santiago near where Pope Francis was scheduled to give an open-air massMore
"Sex abuse is Pope Francis' weakest spot in terms of his credibility", said Massimo Faggioli, a Vatican expert and theology professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia.
While once a stronghold of the Catholic Church, Chile is now among Latin America's most secular nations, and the image of the church has taken a severe hit over what many see as a cover-up. The Vatican subsequently sentenced Karadima in 2011 to a lifetime of penitence and prayer and forbade him from ever again performing ministerial duties. Victims went public with their accusations in 2010, after complaining for years to church authorities that Karadima would kiss and fondle them when they were teenagers.
Karadima has denied the allegations and Barros said he was unaware of any wrongdoing.
Much of that ire is directed at Francis. The Argentine pope is almost a native son, having studied in Chile during his Jesuit novitiate and he knows the country well, but Chileans give him the lowest approval rating among the 18 Latin American nations in the survey. In Santiago, at least five churches have been attacked since Friday, some with firebombs. No one was hurt, but the vandals left fliers at some sites threatening to kill the pope. They planned to protest outside while Francis celebrated Mass.
"People are leaving the church because they don't find a protective space there", Juan Carlos Claret, a spokesman for a group of church members who opposed Barros's appointment as bishop, told the Associated Press.
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The pope celebrated Mass in O'Higgins Park before a crowd estimated at about 400,000 people.
In a first for Francis, he visited a women's prison, telling inmates at Santiago's San Joaquin Female Penitentiary that "losing our freedom does not did not mean losing our dreams and hopes". Francis' appeal for forgiveness also comes only months after he gave the benediction for the funeral of disgraced Cardinal Bernard F. Law who the Boston Globe Spotlight Team exposed for covering up dozens of cases of child sexual abuse by priests.
"Here I feel bound to express my pain and shame at the irreparable damage caused to children by some ministers of the church", Francis told Chilean government officials, including President Michelle Bachelet, lawmakers and the diplomatic corps in Santiago.
"I am one with my brother bishops, for it is right to ask forgiveness and make every effort to support the victims, even as we commit ourselves to ensuring that such things do not happen again", he said.
A man exhibits on his chest photos of Pope Francis to sell outside St. Jose Cathedral ahead of the papal visit in Temuco, Chile, Jan. 14, 2018.
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