(November 16, 1936 – July 5, 2017) was a Spanish journalist, physician and academic who served as the Director of the Holy See Press Office from 1984 to 2006.

Esteemed by his colleagues, he was elected a member of the Board of Directors (1979) and later President of the Foreign Press Association, Italy (1983 and 1984).

From 1996 until 2001, he served as President of the Administration Board of the “Maruzza Lefebvre d’Ovidio” Foundation for terminally ill cancer patients.

His continued work in medicine and journalism allowed him to participate in national and international conferences on psychiatry and/or communication as a guest speaker.

From 1996 he was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Institutional Social Communications of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

He was apparently instrumental in bringing a high level of candor to the bulletins which daily informed the world concerning the aged pope's declining health.