Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts

At the beginning of 1991 he was appointed Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of legislative Texts.

Julián Herranz Casado (born 1930), Cardinal, ex president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts.

Archbishop Herranz, who is the president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, said that the American church's large financial settlements with sexual abuse victims were "unwarranted."

He served as president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts in the Roman Curia from 1994 to 2007, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003.

"Catholics who are divorced and remarried should not receive Holy Communion" (Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, World News in Brief, CV, August, 2000).

Ordained to the priesthood in 1959, he was appointed titular bishop of Drivastum in 1991 and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts in 1994.

Made public on 8 July was a note from the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, signed by Council president, Archbishop Julian Herranz, regarding the authentic interpretation of canons dealing with the care of the Eucharist.

Herranz, Julián, Cardinal, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts: awarded a Doctorate in Canon Law by the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)

Nedungatt's name has been in the Annuario Pontificio for many years: as Consultor of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (1989-2000); and of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts.