Download 2013-November-01 Diocese of Prince George Pagella of Faculties

Diocese of Prince George
Pagella of Faculties for Priests
General Faculties are granted to priests who are incardinated and those canonically assigned to work in the
Diocese.
Priests, ipso iure (can. 764), may preach the Word of God in churches, chapels, prayer houses and places
where the faithful gather for worship throughout the diocese, with at least the presumed consent of the
pastor of the parish, except where express permission is required or unless this faculty has been expressly
restricted or removed.
(Express permission is required from the ordinary for spiritual exercises in parishes such as missions, retreats,
novenas, etc. Nor do these faculties include permission to speak on radio or television or to write for secular
newspapers or journals, on behalf of or in the name of the diocese and the church, without authorization of
the Ordinary), (can. 831 §2).
BAPTISM:
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to baptize persons who have completed the age of fourteen, without deferring to the bishop (can.
863).
A priest is to baptize any such person only with the express permission of his or her pastor (can. 862).
CONFIRMATION:
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to confirm adults immediately after Baptism, (can. 866). A pastor who baptizes an adult or admits
a baptized adult into full communion with the Catholic Church has by law the faculty to confirm
the adult (can. 883. 2).
In danger of death, all priests may confirm (can. 883. 3).
****The confirmation of an adult Catholic raised in the Catholic faith is reserved to the bishop.
EUCHARIST:
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to binate on weekdays and trinate on Sundays for pastoral reasons and due to scarcity of priests
(can. 905 §2).
to retain for himself the offering (stipend) for only one Mass a day. The other offerings for the
bination and trination Masses are to be given for the purpose prescribed by the Ordinary and are
to be reported once a month to the Chancery with the offering, if there is one.
Pastors are bound on each Sunday and holy day of obligations to apply the “Missa pro populo” (can. 534 §1,
§2, §3).
A priest who on the same day concelebrates a second Mass may not under any title retain for himself the
offering made that Mass (can. 951 §2).
PENANCE:
Priests can hear sacramental confessions of the faithful habitually anywhere in the diocese, and anywhere in
the world, except where a particular local Ordinary has refused it (can. 967 §2).
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Priests may remit in the internal or external forum a latae sententiae penalty (incurred automatically after
the offence is committed, as stated by law), but not reserved to the bishop or the Apostolic See. This faculty
may be exercised only within the Diocese for the pastoral care and good of the person, regardless of where
the penalty was incurred.
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to remit in the internal (sacramental) forum the latae sententiae censure (automatic
excommunication) for procuring abortion.
**** Absolution from the censures for the following grave offenses, which incur automatic
excommunication, interdict or, in the case of clerics, suspension, are reserved to the Ordinary:
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Public apostasy, heresy, schism, (can. 1364 §1);
Physical force against a bishop, (can. 1370 §2);
Attempting to celebrate Mass or hear confession when not ordained priest, (can. 1378 §2, #1, #2);
False denunciation of a confessor (can. 1390 §1);
Attempted marriage by a cleric or religious in perpetual vows, (can. 1394 §1, §2).
**** Absolution from the censures for the following offences is reserved to the Holy See:
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Desecration of the Sacred Species, (can. 1367);
Assaulting the Roman Pontiff, (can. 1370 §1);
Absolution of an accomplice in the sin against the sixth commandment’, (can 1378 §1; ad can 977);
Unlawful ordination of a bishop, (can. 1382);
Violation of the seal of confession, (can. 1388 §1).
MARRIAGE:
A general faculty is granted to priests and deacons who are incardinated in the Diocese to assist at marriages
anywhere within the Diocese, when at least one of the parties is of the Latin rite, (can. 1109). Delegation to
officiate at the marriage is to be granted by the pastor of the parish where the marriage is to be celebrated
(can. 1114). Marriages are celebrated in the proper parish of either Catholic party. When the marriage is to
be celebrated in another parish, permission is required from the Catholic party’s proper pastor.
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The proper pastor can delegate to a priest or deacon the faculty to assist at marriage within the
confines of his territory (can. 1111).
The faculty is granted to priests and deacons to permit a marriage of mixed religion (between two baptized
persons), one of whom was baptized in the Catholic Church or received into it after baptism and who has
not departed from the Church by a formal act, and the other of whom belongs to a Church or ecclesial
community not in full communion with the Catholic Church, (ad can. 1124). Such permission is to be given
only after the conditions stated in can. 1125 have been fulfilled.
**** Permission is required from the bishop to witness at a marriage in any other place other than the parish
church (can. 1118).
FUNERALS:
- A pastor may allow Church funeral rites for an unbaptized child, if the parents had intended to
have the child baptized (ad can. 1183 §2).
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