Confession and juridstiction

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due to juridstictional issues are priests forbidden to hear confessions outside of their parish boundaries and or diocese?
 
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due to juridstictional issues are priests forbidden to hear confessions outside of their parish boundaries and or diocese?
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Faculties are granted for the diocese, not just parish. So priest can go anywhere within the diocese and hear confessions. If they are outside of the diocese, they would need to ask for faculties from the bishop.

For priests of religious orders, they can go into any community/house they have anywhere in the world but they are limited to those who are part of the community. If they wish to hear confessions of the lay people outside the community, they need faculties from the Local Ordinary.
 
There are, of course, exceptions. Here is a Canon Law page about who may hear confessions and where.

For example:
Can. 976 Even though a priest lacks the faculty to hear confessions, he absolves validly and licitly any penitents whatsoever in danger of death from any censures and sins, even if an approved priest is present.
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due to juridstictional issues are priests forbidden to hear confessions outside of their parish boundaries and or diocese?
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The Pope and cardinals can hear confessions anywhere. Bishops can hear confessions anywhere unless they’re in another bishop’s diocese and the resident bishop requests that the visiting bishop doesn’t hear confessions. Priests need faculties to hear confessions. These may be granted by their proper ordinary, e.g. diocesan bishop, major superior. The priest’s faculties will state where the priest can hear confessions. A priest’s faculties may permit him to hear confessions anywhere in the world. Each ordinary can regulate the sacrament so that even though a bishop may grant one of his priests the faculty to hear confessions anywhere if that priest is in another diocese the local ordinary can direct that he may not hear confessions. Some priest are granted faculties by the law to hear confessions in their jurisdiction, e.g. parish priests. In certain circumstances the law itself grants faculties to priests to hear confessions, even suspended or laicized priests, e.g. if the penitent is in danger of death.
 
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due to juridstictional issues are priests forbidden to hear confessions outside of their parish boundaries and or diocese?
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There are different rules for priests and bishops and cardinals and also for the eastern Catholic churches. For example, a Patriarch, Major Archbishop, or Cardinal can hear confessions anywhere. CIC, Canon 967§1; CCEO, Canon 722§2.

In the Byzantine Catholic Church, a priest can hear confessions in any of the eparchies or exarchies of the Ruthenian Greek-Catholic Church, (USA and Europe), according to my pastor.

Also read this:

cuf.org/FileDownloads/confnorms.pdf
 
Others have give references at least to the ballpark area of the pertinent sections of canon law. The bottom line is that if a priest has the faculty to hear confessions then he can use that faculty anywhere. [See c. 967.2. The law is basically the same in the Eastern Churches.] Yes, a certain ordinary could forbid a priest from hearing confessions in the ordinary’s territory but that, in my experience, is a rare occurrence.

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Others have give references at least to the ballpark area of the pertinent sections of canon law. The bottom line is that if a priest has the faculty to hear confessions then he can use that faculty anywhere. [See c. 967.2. The law is basically the same in the Eastern Churches.] Yes, a certain ordinary could forbid a priest from hearing confessions in the ordinary’s territory but that, in my experience, is a rare occurrence.

Dan
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This is all true but it is important to note that any priest who is suspended, such as all priests of a certain Society, then they do not have faculties anywhere.
 
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parroquia or parish priest is also the designation in Mexico, I understand, but the poster was helping users here in the US understand, but it is a distinction without a difference. A diocesan priest has faculties throughout the diocese, but the pastor, parochial vicar, or parish priest, or priest administrator has jurisdiction over the care of all souls within his parish.

there is an explanation that popped up in the FAQs on the homepage this week about priestly faculties. They are most generous with regard to baptism, confession and anointing the sick, and most restricted with regard to marriage.
 
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