Pope Clement VII granted the Inquisitor-General authority over Morisco absolution in 1530

Evidence

The Council of the Suprema [of the Inquisition] wanted to have the Morisco question exclusively in its hands, but that opinion was not shared by the Inquisitor-General, A. de Manrique, nor, above all, by the Pope, Clement VII. The latter on 2 December 1530 issued a Brief giving the Inquisitor-General the power to regulate the parish clergy when they pronounced absolution to those Moriscos who confessed they had taken part in heretical practices, even where they were “relapsed,” that is to say, had reoffended. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 515

Categorization

• DEFINE: Useful definitional anchor: ‘relapsed’ means reoffended after earlier confession — the technical sense that mattered in Inquisitorial categories.