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Article: Dario Castrillon Hoyos, Colombia [Correction 4/26/05]
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 16, 2005
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Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, 75, leads the Vatican's office
for priests. Although dozens of priests have been killed in Italy for
straightforward talk, Castrillon has a reputation for courage and
outspokenness.
Over the years, he has called on a Colombian president whose
election campaign was financed by drug traffickers to step down,
branded lawmakers bribed by traffickers a national disgrace and urged
voters to reject a presidential candidate because he supported the
right to divorce.
In Pereira, a city in the coffee-growing region where he spent 22
years as a bishop, Castrillon is remembered as fearless in action as
well as words. He ...