Canon 974

Can. 974 §1. The local ordinary and the competent superior are not to revoke the faculty to hear confessions habitually except for a grave cause.

Can. 974 §2. When the faculty to hear confessions has been revoked by the local ordinary who granted it as mentioned in can. 967 §2, a presbyter loses the faculty everywhere. If some other local ordinary has revoked the faculty, the presbyter loses it only in the territory of the one who revokes it.

Can. 974 §3. Any local ordinary who has revoked the faculty of some presbyter to hear confessions is to inform the proper ordinary of incardination of the presbyter or, if he is a member of a religious institute, his competent superior.

Can. 974 §4. If the proper major superior of a presbyter has revoked the faculty to hear confessions, the presbyter loses the faculty to hear the confessions of members of the institute everywhere. If some other competent superior has revoked the faculty, however, the presbyter loses it only with regard to the subjects in the jurisdiction of that superior.