Vatican cardinal says family not property of lawmakers

Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo †

Function: President of Family, Roman Curia

Title: Cardinal Bishop of Suburbicarian See of Friscati

Birthdate: Nov 08, 1935	Country: Colombia

Elevated: Feb 02, 1983	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Vatican cardinal says family not property of lawmakers
Feb 04, 2005
The family is a "patrimony of humanity that does not belong to anybody, not even to politicians and lawmakers, who want to invent their own models as if they were the creators."

Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 27 (CNA/CWNews.com) - The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, said this the first priority should be "the humanization of the family, as the beginning of our own humanization."

Cardinal Lopez added, "The state cannot suffocate societies with a falsification of democracy," because "the family is not just an appendix of the state and cannot be treated as an object."

He said, "Conceiving of the family in another way is a very huge change that has no basis in the culture."

Likewise, he warned that the eventual legalization of homosexual unions "has no tomorrow, nor promises anything to society."

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