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This is a two-part contribution about Pope Francis’ visit to Chile in 2018. Part 1 loo- ked at how the press dealt with the visit. Part 2 looks at some discernment points ori- ginating from his meeting with the Church and the People of God journeying in Chile, and from his “Letters of Tribulation”. This writer suggests that the Pope’s evangelizing spirituality “going out” offers a way out of the institutional crisis the Catholic Church lives because of sexual abuses perpetrated by men from the clergy or religious orders. In turn, demands of the crisis itself may keep this spirituality upda- ted. Specifically, Pope Francis’ magisterial texts during the visit, his meeting with vic- tims of abuse in the Church and the so-called Letters of tribulation addressed to the pilgrim Church in Chile offer keys for spiritual discernment for the present time. The article is set in three parts: first a systematic vision of evangelizing spirituality “going out” as expressed in Evangelii gaudium, with emphasis in its communal element; second, a theological interpretation of Pope Francis’ speeches, homilies, and letters on the occasion of his visit to Chile and following events; third, elaboration of some dis- cernment points for the Church journeying today in Chile.

The Latin American (Amerindian) indigenous peoples, not only Amazonian, were probably never on the verge of extermination as at present, due to great international economic powers and interests that threaten the territory itself: the indiscriminate felling of trees, pollution of rivers, lakes and affluents, indiscriminate use of agrotoxic, oil spills, legal and illegal mining, neo-extractivism, monocultures, mafia networks and drug trafficking, trafficking and trafficking of people (mostly women), child prostitution, among others. Faced with this situation, indigenous communities, together with other peoples, raise their voices, organize and fight to defend their territorial living spaces. In this fight of David against Goliath, Christian communities and Amerindian theologies, faithful to their cultural and evangelical roots, accompany the process by re-weaving their own memories, ancestral wisdoms and millenary spiritualities with the experiences lived by the first Christian communities. In this process, indigenous theologies rediscover the perennial presence of the Holy Spirit, which has always accompanied, encouraged and pushed believers to put into practice the “good living” among all the peoples of the earth.