The Apostolic Penitentiary is competent in all matters regarding the internal forum and indulgences as expressions of divine mercy.

It is headed by the Major Penitentiary, assisted by the Regent and by several officials.

For the internal forum, whether sacramental or non-sacramental, it grants absolution from censures, dispensations, commutations, validations, remissions and other favours.

The Apostolic Penitentiary sees to it that the Papal Basilicas of Rome are provided with a sufficient number of Penitentiaries supplied with appropriate faculties.

It oversees the proper training of the Penitentiaries appointed in the Papal Basilicas and of those appointed elsewhere.

The Apostolic Penitentiary is charged with the granting and use of indulgences, without prejudice to the competence of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith concerning their doctrine and of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for ritual matters.

[Apostolic Constituion, Praedicate Evangelium, 19 March 2022]

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