What is your opinion on this? If you have a pastor, minister or religious ..

I have never had this happen to me. But you need to be able to trust the pastor (minister, religous guide, etc..). You need to be able to come to them in times of trouble, in times you need guidance, comfort and support. How can you come to them and open up about personal things going on in your life if you can not trust them. Trust is a very important thing to me. Something like this would make me start to look around for another church. If I could not feel I could trust my pastor I could not go to him when I needed him.

I remember a pastor once who tried to be so friendly he often accidentally slipped out information about other members of the congregation. I know he wasn't doing it to be malicious but it still didn't make it right. There will be "bad" leaders that let you down no matter where you turn. There will also be good ones. It's fine to lose faith in that one bad leader but it shouldn't influence your opinion of all of them.

I have never had this happen to me, nor has anyone else. That is why I can talk to my pastor (reverend) in confidence. In fact when I am at bible study, and the subject comes up about someone doing something against the church's teachings, like adultery, homosexuality, fortification, witchcraft, they usually refer it as there is trouble in =====Church or someone breaking the 2nd or whatever commandment is referred to, but no names are mentioned. If there is a name mentioned, it is usually B- is having a little trouble, but we won't speak of it or B- has not been at church and we who do not know assume that B's family is sick, or B=- is not feeling well herself. So no one usually knows until the pastor announces that "So and So" has broken the 2nd commandment," and given the warning to repent. However we have no idea whether that person went to a false church or whether he or she put an altar to Hecate or to Jupiter in their house, or whether they dressed in saffron and were going to a Buddhist temple.

Well it hasn't happend with the pastor, but in a prayer meetings, when my husband told about a problem (divorce) with our son (granted he talks to much and tells far to many details and he shouldn't do that) but my son is in law enforcement. He told all the people in the prayer meeting details about my son - personally and about the divorce. Told where he works his full name, all kinds of stuff. Well, someone in that prayer meeting was a person that regularly lives in halfway houses and gets arrested all the time, well, next time she got arrested she demanded - by name - to see my son - she knows him and goes to church with his dad and he will get her out or take care of her and just raised a huge ruckus and my son got "spoken to" as to why he was hanging around with this type of "element" when he is an officer of the law and how does she know so much about him, etc. He of course didn't know what the heck was going on - he didn't know this person. Well, come to find out this was the person in the prayer meeting that heard his dad tell all the details about his personal life and just used them when she thought she could. Moral of the story: keep your personal life to yourself and if you have to mention them for a reason, keep it short and sweet and general.

Go to that pastor and let them know how you feel. I had a situation like this except the pastor had sinned. I told him I knew of the situation. He responded to the whole congragation about it. We were born sinners and noone is above it.