FACULTIES. Rights granted by the Holy See to bishops and by ordinaries to their priests to enable the latter to exercise their respective powers for the faithful under their jurisdiction. A historic change was introduced by the new Code of Canon Law. Priests who have faculties for giving absolution in the sacrament of penance in one diocese or from one superior can now validly absolve anywhere (Canon 967). However, specific faculties are still required for the valid administration and witness at marriage. Moreover, faculties for licit administration are required for all the sacraments, with varying degrees of obligation. On a wider scale, faculties are also required for the exercise of ecclesiastical authority or, in general, for performance of any act of jurisdiction in the Catholic Church. In every case it is assumed that the one giving the faculties has the right to do so and the one receiving them has the power to put them into practice.
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