Fr Carlos Aldunate SJ, an exorcist who taught Pope Francis, has died in Chile aged 102.
Fr Aldunate was a spiritual director for the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was studying for his juniorate in 1960.
According to Civiltà Cattolica, Pope Francis shared the following anecdote about Fr Aldunate: “Carlos was the (auxiliary) custodian and was … the king of common sense. Once, I remember I went to see him because I was feeling a lot of rage against a person. I wanted to give him a piece of my mind: tell him that this is not OK, that you are a so-and-so. Father Aldunate said: ‘Calm yourself! Do you seriously want to break with this person from the get-go? Try different approaches.’ I never forgot that advice, and I thank him for that”.
