Is it allowed?

[catholicbball17]

Hi there,
A friend of mine brought up an interesting question to me about if a priest can tell someone what was said to the priest in private but not covered under the seal of confession. This happened to my friend who asked for priest-parishioner confidentiality. And I am not trying to get in anyone in trouble since I want to give my friend an answer.
Thanks.

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

The only thing that canon law would cover is confession. Spiritual Direction is also presumed to be confidential but is not absolute like confession.
Outside of those two situations then normal morality would apply to any confidential conversation. The priest should always err on the side of promised confidentiality and do everything possible to keep the confidence. However there are rare occasions where it would in fact be wrong to not act or share the information.