“I saw someone who was caring for someone, not worrying about if we are gay, straight, brown, white.”

Honduran President Hernandez sought and snatched a second term late last year and began that second term under a cloud of illegitimacy and calls for his resignation that have never stopped.

In the 10-page text, Francis presented a searing diagnosis of what had transformed this once prophetic and esteemed church in Latin America to one of the least respected.

“History is being made. We are at a particular moment for the universal church, not only for Chile,” one monsignor said.

A crackdown on drug cartels, started 11 years ago, has claimed more than 200,000 lives and left more than 30,000 people missing.

In their first meeting, Pope Francis provided the bishops with texts to pray and meditate on.