Dicastery for Legislative Texts
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The Dicastery for Legislative Texts, formerly named Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. It is distinct from the highest tribunal or court in the Church, which is the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and does not have law-making authority to the degree the Pope and the Holy See's tribunals do. Its charge is the interpretation of existing canon laws, and it works closely with the Signatura and the other Tribunals and the Pope. Like the Signatura and the other two final appellate Tribunals, the Roman Rota and the Apostolic Penitentiary, it is led by a prefect who is a bishop or archbishop.
The current president of the Pontifical Council is Archbishop Filippo Iannone,{{cite news | url = https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/38170/analysis-who-is-the-popes-new-canon-law-expert | title = Analysis: Who is the Pope’s new canon law expert? | access-date = 27 October 2018 | date= 11 April 2018 | first = Andrea | last = Gagliarducci | work = Catholic News Agency}} the current secretary is Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru.
History and field of competence
On 14 May 1904, Pope Pius X created the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law. It produced the 1917 Code of Canon Law, promulgated by Pope Benedict XV on 27 May 1917 to take effect on 19 May 1918.{{cite book | access-date = 29 June 2020 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nNRMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35& |page=35 | title= Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory | first = John J.| last = Coughlin | publisher = Oxford University Press | date= 2011}}
Pope Benedict then established the Pontifical Commission for Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law on 5 September 1917.{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-09-I-1917-ocr.pdf | pages= 483–4 | access-date = 23 June 2020 | date= 1917| volume = IX |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis }} On 28 March 1963, Pope John XXIII replaced it with the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law, a revision called for by the Second Vatican Council. On 11 July 1967, Pope Paul VI established the Pontifical Commission for Interpretation of the Decrees of the Second Vatican Council and, two years later, extended its mandate to the interpretation of the documents issued by the Holy See to implement those decrees.{{Cn|date=October 2021}}
After promulgating a new version of the Code of Canon Law in January 1983, Pope John Paul II erected the Pontifical Commission for Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law once again on 2 January 1984. Its competence included with the universal laws for the Latin Rite within its purview. This Commission replaced those set up by his two predecessors. On 28 June 1988, the body was given its present name and its jurisdiction in the apostolic constitution Pastor Bonus.{{cite web | language= it | publisher = The Holy See | access-date = 20 June 2020 | url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/intrptxt/documents/rc_pc_intrptxt_pro_20061122_it.html | title = Pontificio Consiglio per i Testi Legislativi }}
On 18 October 1990, its competence was extended to interpreting the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and the laws shared in common by the Eastern Catholic Churches.{{Cn|date=October 2021}}
Pastor bonus states that the dicastery's work "consists mainly in interpreting the laws of the Church". (Pastor Bonus, 154).{{Cite web |date=28 June 1988 |title=Pastor Bonus, - John Paul II - Apostolic Constitution |url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_19880628_pastor-bonus-roman-curia_en.html#PONTIFICAL%20COUNCILS |access-date=25 June 2020 |publisher=Libreria Editrice Vaticana |at=Articles 154–8}}
Praedicate evangelium renamed the organ to Dicastery for Legislative Texts.
Presidents
; Pontifical Commission for Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law
- Pietro Gasparri{{efn|name=succession|Two self-published websites provide inconsistent data for the succession to this office between 1930 and 1936, either self-contradictory or in conflict with official sources.{{cite web | website = The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church | access-date = 30 June 2020 | url = http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1930.htm#Serafini | title= Serafini, Giulio}}{{cite web| website = Catholic Hierarchy |url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dxilt.html | access-date = 30 June 2020 | title = Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts}} A third appears the most reliable.{{cite web | url = http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/romancuria/d22.htm | website= GCatholic | access-date = 30 June 2020 | title= Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts }} The idea that Sincero became president in 1930 is contradicted by both Gasparri's identification as president at his death 1934 in the AAS necrology and the fact that Sincero was named a member of this Commission on 3 December 1930{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-23-1931-ocr.pdf | page= 28| access-date = 30 June 2020 | date= 1931| volume = XXIII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis }} The only date not documented by AAS is that of Serafini's appointment.}} (15 September 1917{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-09-I-1917-ocr.pdf | page= 558 | access-date = 23 June 2020 | date= 1917| volume = IX |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote = Commissione Pontificia per la Interpretazione autentica del Codice di Diritto Canonico, nominandone Presidente }} – 18 November 1934){{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-26-1934-ocr.pdf | page= 648 | access-date = 23 June 2020 | date= 1934| volume = XXVI |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote = Preside della Commissione pontificia per l'interpretazione autentica del Codice di diritto canonico... }}
- Luigi Sincero{{efn|name=succession}} (12 December 1934{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-27-1935-ocr.pdf | page= 29| access-date = 23 June 2020 | date= 1935| volume = XXVII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote = Presidente della Commissione Pontificia per la Interpretazione autentica del Codice di Diritto Canonico }} – 7 February 1936){{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-28-1936-ocr.pdf | page= 120 |access-date = 30 June 2020 | date= 1936 |volume = XXVIII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis }}{{cite book | access-date = 23 June 2020 | first= Harris M. | last = Lentz III | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ongwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177& | title = Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary | publisher = McFarland | date= 2015| page = 177}}
- Giulio Serafini{{efn|name=succession}} (1936? – 16 July 1938){{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-30-1938-ocr.pdf | page= 276 |access-date = 23 June 2020 | date= 1938 |volume = XXX |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis }}
- Massimo Massimi (14 March 1939{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-31-1939-ocr.pdf | page= 138 | access-date = 22 June 2020 | date= 1939| volume = XXXI |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote = Presidente della Commissione Pontificia per la Interpretazione autentica del Codice di Diritto Canonico }} – 29 May 1946){{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-38-1946-ocr.pdf | pages= 328–9| access-date = 22 June 2020 | date= 1946| volume = XXXVIII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis }}
- Pietro Ciriaci (31 May 1955{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-47-1955-ocr.pdf | page= 427 | access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 1955 | volume = XLVII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote= Presidente della Commissione Pontificia per la Interpreta- zione autentica del Codice di Diritto Canonico}} – 6 April 1963)
; Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law
- Pietro Ciriaci (6 April 1963{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-55-1963-ocr.pdf | pages= 363–4 | access-date = 26 June 2020 | date= 1963 | volume = LV |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis }} – 30 December 1966){{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ongwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA45& | page=45 | title = Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary | access-date = 21 June 2020 | first = Harris M. | last= Lentz III | date= 2015 | publisher = McFarland }}
- Pericle Felici{{efn|Felici was also named President of the Pontifical Commission for the Interpretation of the Decrees of the Second Vatican Council. The creation of that body and his presidency appeared in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis undated in November 1967.{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-59-1967-ocr.pdf | page= 1003| access-date = 26 June 2020 | date= 1967 | volume = LIX |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote= Pontificia Commissione per l'Interpretazione dei Decreti del Concilio Vaticano II }}}} (21 February 1967{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-59-1967-ocr.pdf | page= 382| access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 1967 | volume = LIX |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote= Pro-Presidente della Pontificia Commissione per la revisione del Codice di Diritto Canonico }} – 22 March 1982){{cite news|title=Cardinal Felici, Noted Expert on Church Law for Vatican|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/23/obituaries/cardinal-felici-noted-expert-on-church-law-for-vatican.html|access-date=20 June 2020|work=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=23 March 1982}}
- Rosalio José Castillo Lara, SDB (17 May 1982{{cite book |title= Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 26 June 2020 |quote= Pro-Presidente della Pontificia Commissione per la Revisione del Codice di Diritto Canonico | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-74-1982-ocr.pdf |date= 1982| volume = LXXIV | page= 748}} – 18 January 1984)
; Pontifical Commission for Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law
- Rosalio José Castillo Lara, SDB (18 January 1984{{cite book |title= Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 26 June 2020 |quote= Pro-Presidente della Pontificia Commissione per l'Interpretazione autentica del Codice di Diritto Canonico | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-76-1984-ocr.pdf |date= 1984| volume = LXXVI | page= 342}} – 6 December 1989){{cite book |title= Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 20 June 2020 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-82-1990-ocr.pdf |date= 1990| volume = LXXXII | page= 120}}
;Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
- Vincenzo Fagiolo (15 December 1990{{cite book |title= Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 20 June 2020 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-83-1991-ocr.pdf | date= 1991 | volume = LXXXIII | page= 112 }} – 19 December 1994)
- Julián Herranz Casado (19 December 1994{{cite book | title= Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 20 June 2020 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-87-1995-ocr.pdf | date= 1995 | volume = LXXXVII | page= 120 }} – 15 February 2007)
- Francesco Coccopalmerio (15 February 2007{{cite news|last1=Allen Jr.|first1=John L.|title=Opus Dei down to one top Vatican official; Benedict's ties to Communion and Liberation deepen|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/opus-dei-down-one-top-vatican-official-benedicts-ties-communion-and-liberation-deepen|access-date=19 June 2020|work=National Catholic Reporter|date=16 February 2007}} – 7 April 2018)
- Filippo Iannone (7 April 2018{{cite press release | access-date = 7 April 2018 | date = 7 April 2018 | title = Resignations and Appointments, 07.04.2018 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | url= http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/04/07/180407d.html }} – present)
Secretaries
;Pontifical Commission for Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law
- Luigi Sincero (15 September 1917 – 23 May 1923){{cite news | work= New York Times | access-date = 23 June 2020 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/05/26/105105649.html?pageNumber=17 | title = Pope Gives Two Red Hats |date = May 26, 1923}}
- Giuseppe Bruno (14 February 1924 – 16 February 1946)
- Gabriel Acacius Coussa, BA (3 March 1946{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-38-1946-ocr.pdf | page= 140 |access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 1946 | volume = XXXVIII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote= Segretario della Commissione Pontificia per Interpretazione autentica del Codice di Diritto Canonico }} – 13 August 1961){{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-53-1961-ocr.pdf | page= 575 |access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 1961 | volume = LIII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis }}
- Giacomo Violardo (2 April 1962{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-54-1962-ocr.pdf | page= 413|access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 1962 | volume = LIV |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote= Segretario della Pontificia Commissione per Interpretazione Autentica del Codice di Diritto Canonico }} – 6 April 1963)
;Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law
- Giacomo Violardo (6 April 1963 – 26 January 1965)
- Raimondo Bidagor, S.J.{{efn|In 1962, Bigador was secretary of the Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments.{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=j0UdCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA275& | page= 275 | title = John XXIII: Pope of the Century | access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 2010 | publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing | first= Peter | last= Hebblethwaite }} He was also teaching canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University when named secretary to the Commission for Revisions in 1965.{{cite book | access-date = 20 June 2020 | language = it | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s2YqCx0XRmEC&pg=PA12& | page= 12 | title = Comunione ecclesiale e strutture di corresponsabilità: dal Vaticano II al nuovo Codice di diritto canonico | date= 1990 | editor-first= Jean | editor-last= Beyer | editor-first2= Giorgio |editor-last2=Feliciani | editor-first3= Hubert |editor-last3= Müller | publisher = Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana }} He served as the Commission's spokesperson when changes to the procedures for annulments were announced in June 1971.{{cite news | work = The New York Times | access-date = 21 June 2020 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/12/archives/vatican-revises-annulment-rules-new-legal-procedures-are-aimed-at.html | title = Vatican Revises Annulment Rules}}}} (24 February 1965{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-57-1965-ocr.pdf | page= 268|access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 1975 | volume = LXVII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote= Segretario della Pontificia Commissione per la Revisione del Codice di Diritto Canonico }} – 1973)
- Rosalio José Castillo Lara, S.D.B. (20 February 1975{{cite book |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-67-1975-ocr.pdf | page= 160|access-date = 20 June 2020 | date= 1975 | volume = LXVII |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | quote= Segretario della Pontificia Commissione per la Revisione del Codice di Diritto Canonico }} – 17 May 1982)
; Pontifical Commission for Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law
- Julián Herranz Casado (19 January 1984 – 19 December 1994)
;Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
- Bruno Bertagna (19 December 1994 – 15 February 2007)
- Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru (15 February 2007{{cite press release |url= http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2007/02/15/0082/00227.html | language= it | publisher = Holy See Press Office | access-date = 20 June 2020 | title= Rinunce e Nomine, 15.02.2007 | date= 15 February 2007}} – present)
See also
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References
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