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The interviewer looked like he was sucking lemons. The priest follows the doctrine of the Church - for example - he told the interviewer in no uncertain terms that Contraceptives were wrong...he also told him to stick Darwinism up his rear end albeit in that absent-minded and intellectual way he employs...someone has to talk to them - rather him than me. :) You appear to be a theologian and I'm anything but...so I'll defer to: Chapter 13 of this book touches on something maybe close to what the Msr. was musing...here's a paragraph: [..]Here is another remarkable thing. We know that God is identified with each of His attributes, so He does not love, but love. Similarly He is justice, and He is mercy. How is this possible? We can begin to understand as we are now explaining. The man who goes out on the bad spiral is getting more and more blind. This is justice, he has earned the blinding. But it is also mercy, for the more one knows about religion , the greater the responsibility. So his responsibility is mercifully being reduced. And in one and the same action, we find both mercy and justice exercised.[..] http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/NWAPOLRV.htm ...and this: St. Augustine: "we should clearly understand that the fulfillment and the end of the Law, and of all Holy Scripture, is love...Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought"

You appear to be a theologian and I'm anything but…

Me? A theologian? Hardly...I'm just a standard layman who likes to keep read up on the Faith.

(Living in the metro DC area, I wish I could afford to be a theologian. But not only is tuition to become a theologian out of my reach (about $28K per year), but the salaries are such that I would have a very, very hard time paying the mortgage on a theologian's wages...so I just get to be a hobbyist...)