He was 72:

Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, died Saturday of complications from diabetes.  The cardinal had been in a hospital fighting different health complications for nearly four weeks before he passed away.  Cardinal Trujillo, Archbishop emeritus of Medellin, Colombia, was 72.

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