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HarryStotle
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Whether or not a priest somewhere at some time “said it,” is inconsequential as far as the moral question goes unless one thinks priests are morally infallible.Read the link I posted for the statement the priest made. You may not agree with his reasons, but the priest said it.
That was my point. Priests say all sorts of things, like the rest of us. Better to follow the official guidance of the Church, like Faithful Citizenship, and in its entirety, not just selecting the passages we like best while downplaying the parts we don’t like.
The crucial question is precisely, as you point out, the reasons the priest has for claiming what he does. Whether or not those reasons are compellingly true is the real question.