[ConservingFreedom]

So he should have added to the mothers burdens by telling her her son is going to Hell?

No.

He gave a pastoral response to ease her mind.

Minimizing the importance of the Mass is not pastoral.

After all either of them can do is pray the son turns it around.

He could have said that.

Increasingly it looks like Catholics must again rely on God to save His Church from a pope.

[defconw]

Maybe he did say that. No was not a stenographer there, now was there?