Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru

Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru (10 April 1951–) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.

Quotes

• The philosophy of legal positivism is not the way of the Church, for the Church it is not a possible way of thinking. What truly links the Church, and the faithful, are the sacraments, the word of Christ. No authority is binding that rejects the sacraments; that is not possible, acting that way would not be possible, even if some say that it could be so.
  • ‘Useless to pretend’: Vatican official dismisses German ‘binding synodal path’ (11 October 2019)