Can the Diocesan Bishop Commit a Penance?

In general, I think you live anywhere around the Baltimore, Washington area. There's a dispensation of some kind and effect. So you don't need to go to the dioceses shopping. But if you live in the opposite circumstances, if you living in a dispensation desert, so to speak, and perhaps very important to you. Perhaps you live in a very heavily Polish Catholic area. And they're down on the Irish and they're not going to do this. And they save their dispensations for St. Faustina Day or whatever it is. That's the Japanese one. They eat their little goisa. Then you have the emergency record. You can go to your