Trujillo
Apr 20 2008, AP

Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, a Colombian prelate who helped lead the Vatican’s campaign against abortion and insisted condoms do not prevent HIV transmission, has died, one of his assistants said Sunday. He was 72.Lopez Trujillo died Saturday night...

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