"Crimen sollicitationis" repeated that, under pain of grave sin, any ordinary (bishop or equivalent) who received a denunciation of the crime of solicitation was to inform immediately the Holy See and the ordinary of the place of residence of the accused priest. It was for the ordinary of the place of residence to investigate the charge at the first level ("in prima instantia"); the Holy See reserved to itself the right to intervene at this level only "for particular and grave reasons".