That’s not true about the confidentiality of priests… a priest has the same legal obligation to turn in someone that is a danger to themselves or others as a therapist.
Can. 983 §1. The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.
Can. 1388 §1. A confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; one who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the delict.
That’s not true about the confidentiality of priests… a priest has the same legal obligation to turn in someone that is a danger to themselves or others as a therapist.
Doubt it. The Code of Canon Law states: