Does Pope Francis have the authority to allow catholics who are attending Pius X masses recieve absolution from their priests?

[esquisfo1]

It seems that since Pius X Society are not in communion with the Holy See, their priests should not be able to confess catholics’ that are attending masses there.

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

Pope Benedict XVI rescinded the excommunications of the bishops of the SSPX so we can say that they are Catholic. However, they lack faculties due to their doctrinal disagreements with the Church:

As long as the Society does not have a canonical status in the Church, its ministers do not exercise legitimate ministries in the Church.

Whether a priest has faculties or not is a canonical matter. Pope Francis by virtue of his office possesses supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary power in the Church, which he is always able to exercise freely (canon 331).

The Church grants faculties to priests who are not in active ministry already in canon law. Anyone who has been validly ordained a priest has the faculty to hear a confession of someone who is in danger of death (canon 986 §1). This is true even if the priest has no faculties from a bishop, has been suspended or even excommunicated.