COLOMBIAN Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, has died in Rome from a chest infection, hospital officials said.
The 72-year-old had been the Vatican`s family minister since 1990 and defended the Roman Catholic Church`s staunch opposition to the use of condoms in the fight against HIV/AIDS and to abortion, likening the pill to "chemical warfare".
He also called for doctors practising abortions and involved in research on embryos to be excommunicated.
He was opposed to Latin America`s liberation theology, according to which the Church should do more to liberate people from oppression and poverty.
He died today, hospital officials said.
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