What leads to an increase in the number of Christians in the world is God’s beneficence.
Love is not an abstract, everyone knows when they feel it.
The implication is that since no electronic equipment existed then, that the New Testament might have it all wrong. Jesus may have been in favor of homosexual “marriage”, who knows? He might have said that Sodomy was just fine, and the Bible misinterpreted his meaning. He might not even be Jewish, in fact. He was probably just making it all up anyway.
THAT kind of 'dogmatic' and fixed-in-stone-come-hell-or-high-water THINKING within the Catholic Church is what the Pope, and the Superior General of the worldwide Jesuit order are trying to fight against!
How do this priest’s views differ from what the Vatican says about the entire context of the Bible? Everything has to be “interpreted” by the Catholic Church. Scripture by itself means nothing without their “interpretation”.
"Since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation." (Dei Verbum 11)
This context:
High time for the Jesuit order to be dissolved, again...