Article II. On the Tribunals of the Roman Curia

§ 1. Over the Sacred Penitentiary is placed the Cardinal Major Penitentiary. The jurisdiction of this tribunal is restricted to those things which regard the internal forum, even the non-sacramental forum; wherefore this tribunal for the internal forum alone grants graces, absolutions, dispensations, commutations, sanations, and condonations; besides, it examines questions of conscience and settles them.

§ 2. It is also for the same tribunal to judge concerning all those things which pertain to the use and concession of indulgences, saving the right of the Holy Office of seeing those things which regard dogmatic doctrine concerning the same indulgences or concerning new prayers and devotions (Can. 258).

Causes requiring judicial order are handled before the Sacred Roman Rota and before the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura within the limits and according to the norms handed down in can. 1598-1605, saving the right of the Congregation of the Holy Office and of the Congregation of Sacred Rites in causes proper to themselves (Can. 259).