Account: "Why This Priest Always Travels With His Collar On."

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Do priests traveling like this (i.e., in clerical dress and obviously a priest) have to have faculties from the local bishop to hear confessions?

And to get even more technical than that, what if they are on an airliner, and it cannot be determined what diocese they are flying over? Or on a ship at sea or flying over the ocean?

I don’t intend these to sound like irreverent, George Carlin-type questions. If a penitent had a shameful situation of conscience, it would be much easier to confess to a priest whom, in all likelihood, they would never see again.
 
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This is awesome! I know Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand. When I was living in my home town before I moved, he was the associate pastor at my parish for a time. He’s an amazing and holy priest.

That said, I think that he has a great idea in traveling in his clerics and I wish more priests would do it. It’s a powerful witness.
 
Wonderful. I’ll just add my perennial reminder that I don’t think it’s any of my business as a lay person to tell clergy when they should/shouldn’t wear clericals in public. That’s their business along with their bishop/superior.
 
It looks like you are correct. Here is the relevant part of the 1983 Code of Canon Law:

Can. 967 §1. In addition to the Roman Pontiff, cardinals have the faculty of hearing the confessions of the Christian faithful everywhere in the world by the law itself. Bishops likewise have this faculty and use it licitly everywhere unless the diocesan bishop has denied it in a particular case.
§2. Those who possess the faculty of hearing confessions habitually whether by virtue of office or by virtue of the grant of an ordinary of the place of incardination or of the place in which they have a domicile can exercise that faculty everywhere unless the local ordinary has denied it in a particular case, without prejudice to the prescripts of can. 974, §§2 and 3.
 
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