us!"). When Chilean Church officials criticized the Pinochet regime the next month, it defended dissent and called for reconciliation, but dropped Silva's direct criticism of the government and his calls for democracy. In 1986, when U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who sponsored a 1976 amendment banning military assistance to Chile and a critic of the Chilean government, visited Chile. Silva met with Kennedy while his successor as archbishop refused to. In December 1978, the Vicariate for Solidaity was awarded the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights in 1984. He founded the Academy of Christian Humanism in 1988, an outgrowth of his effort beginning in 1975 to bring intellectuals together to discuss politics, society, economy and culture in Chile. Silva suffered from Alzheimer's disease near the end of his life and died of a heart attack at a Salesian retirement house in La Florida, at age 91, and was buried in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago. His death left Franz Cardinal König as the only surviving cardinal elevated by John XXIII. The government of Chile declared five days of national mourning after his death and President Eduardo Frei said Silva's death was "a deep pain for the entire nation". The Guardian headlined his obituary: "Pinochet's turbulent priest" and crowds at his funeral chanted "Raul, amigo, el pueblo esta contigo" (Raul, friend, the people are with you). Selected writings El Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez nos dijo, 2 volumes (Editorial Tiberíades, 2002) References Additional sources External links 1907 births 1999 deaths Chilean cardinals 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Chile People from Talca Chilean people of Portuguese descent Participants in the Second Vatican Council Roman Catholic archbishops of Santiago de Chile Cardinals created by Pope John XXIII Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Salesian Pontifical University alumni Roman Catholic bishops of Valparaíso Salesian cardinals