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Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo (
8 November 1935 –
19 April 2008) was a
Colombian
Cardinal Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Church and president of the
Pontifical Council for the Family. For several weeks prior to his death, he'd been hospitalized for treatment for complications from
diabetes.
Biography
Born in
Villahermosa,
Tolima, López Trujillo moved to
Bogotá as a young boy and attended
National University of Colombia before he entered the
seminary in order to become a priest. Trujillo completed his studies in
Rome, earning a doctorate in philosophy from the
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) and completing studies in
sociology,
anthropology and
Marxism.
In 1972, López Trujillo was elected general secretary of the
Latin American Episcopal Conference, a post he held until 1984. Well known for his dislike and distrust of the radical social agenda espoused by many Latin American priests and bishops, in this capacity he led the opposition to
liberation theology and succeeded in watering down or reversing many of the reforms made in that forum. One of his major accomplishments during that period was to organize the third general conference of Latin American Bishops in 1979, in which
Pope John Paul II participated. That same year, he became
Archbishop of Medellín.
López Trujillo was named
Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 2 February 1983, becoming the youngest cardinal until 1991. He was promoted to the order of
Cardinal Bishops on 17 November 2001. In 1990, López Trujillo was named president of the
Pontifical Council for the Family. He assumed the office in 1991 but retained the title of
Archbishop emeritus of
Medellín.
As president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, López Trujillo was a highly influential proponent of conservative and traditionalist values, particularly on sexual matters and on liberation theology. He advocated
abstinence as an effective solution in preventing the spread of
HIV. He reaffirmed the Church's teaching that the use of
condoms is immoral, and controversially sought to discourage condom use among Catholics by stating that they're ineffective in preventing the transmission of HIV — a claim that was opposed and ridiculed by eminent scientists and by the
World Health Organization.
He was also a strong opponent of
gay marriage;
abortion - a stance that won him much praise and support from groups such as the
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children; and embryological research, warning Catholics involved in the creation of
embryos as part of
IVF treatment for infertility that they'd be excommunicated.
López Trujillo participated in the
2005 Papal conclave, which elected
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who took the name
Pope Benedict XVI. López Trujillo was considered as one of the cardinals considered
papabile at the 2005 conclave. Upon the death of the pope, all major
Vatican officials automatically lost their positions during the
sede vacante, but López Trujillo was later reappointed to the office by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 April 2005.
Following a four-week hospitalization, Cardinal López Trujillo died on 19 April 2008 in
Rome, aged 72, due to a
respiratory infection arising as a complication of
diabetes. His funeral
Mass was held on April 23, 2008 in
St. Peter's Basilica.
Angelo Cardinal Sodano served as principle celebrant of the Mass, and
Pope Benedict XVI delivered the homily and performed the final absolution.
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