Alfonso López Trujillo

Alfonso López Trujillo (8 November 1935 – 19 April 2008) was a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxillary bishop of the Archdiocese of Bogotá and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Quotes

• Demographic politics, with the ways of a hew ideology and what is called "demographic colonialism", specialize in poor regions and countries. These are not the product of something spontaneous. They are provoked, concerted and coordinated for powerful institutions working with a particular view.
  • Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo President of Pontifical Council for the Family Vatican City (1994) The African Synod

• The danger denounced by the Latin American bishops is that of the prevailing of an ideology that is not Latin American but which can have a certain contingent success, as sometimes happens with the democratic majorities that are here today and gone tomorrow. A danger arising out of anthropological confusion and out of the juridical positivism reigning in some countries, whereby the law, as law, is always good. But this is not a certain criterion, history is full of examples that run counter.
  • Awaiting Valencia (2005) 30 Days