Not correcting the falsehood you told someone a sin?

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Is a catholic obliged to tell the person they lied too the actual truth? Is it a sin if they don’t
 
It’s not necessary for the purposes of confession.

As to whether you should or not, I guess it depends on how important the correct information is. If you lied to someone and they’re going to suffer some harm in reliance on your lie, then I think you have a moral obligation to set them straight.
 
Would this be important, I recently went to confession and my parent explained if the sin was out of habit it wouldnt be classified as a mortal sin and I didn’t reply because I wasn’t even sure if I committed the sin out of habit but I didn’t reply still, so he thought it was out of habit should
 
And when I wasn’t replying I didn’t know if I was lying
 
This sounds like scrupulosity. You should discuss this stuff with your priest next time you go to to confession.
 
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And when I wasn’t replying I didn’t know if I was lying
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It is not very clear what you are saying, but merely being wrong is not lying. And being silent is not lying. As St. Thomas Aquinas says (SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: The vices opposed to truth, and first of lying (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 110)): “the essential notion of a lie is taken from formal falsehood, from the fact namely, that a person intends to say what is false”.

And, as RolandThompsonGunner pointed out, such a question might be a symptom of scrupulosity (that is, having conscience with “low specificity” - finding many “false positives”, “sins” that are not really sins).
 
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