since he’s probably not an American he doesn’t understand the American male’s ingrained subservience to political correctness. This alone will give him strength.
He’s an American and grew up in Virginia. Oddly enough, I read that he has spent much of his priestly career in Russia and the former Soviet states, and had only been in the parish where this incident happened for about a year.
He is an American. He was raised in Virginia. But he has spent a career fighting totalitarianism, atheism, and liberalism. Political correctness is not his practice; speaking direct truth is.