Chilean Archbishop calls for national unity amid pandemic One of Chile’s prominent Church leaders says the government lacks a project to unite Chileans in the face of the ongoing pandemic. By Devin Watkins Archbishop Fernando Chomali of Concepcion has expressed his concern with the direction Chile is taking, in an interview with daily newspaper El Sur. The Covid-19 pandemic, he said, has brought to the fore a major problem facing the nation: “There is no national project or comprehensive vision of the meaning the human person and the community.” The Archbishop pointed out that last October’s referendum revealed Chileans’ discontent with their political leaders.