A prolific author
Apr 17, 2005
Spanish Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, 69, is Archbishop of Seville, and a Franciscan. A prolific author, he seems to take on every possible topic - from the existence of God to the salaries of bishops.
(The Tablet, 23 April 2005) From 1973 until his appointment to Seville in 1982 he was Archbishop of Tangier in Morocco, a diocese of 1,600 Catholics in a city of four million Muslims.
He is credited with establishing diplomatic relations between Spain and Morocco, and one of his 35 books is called Christians and Muslims.
In many parts of the world, he writes there, the two communities live side by side, yet know almost nothing of the other's beliefs. "It is easy that in this situation of ignorance and neglect, there arise a series of prejudices - born frequently of mistaken concepts or ambiguous news reports such as those about confrontations, which under the cloak of religion hide motives and special interests which are quite different from those held by authentic believers."
A prolific author