Innocent by the standard the priest cited. Not everyone in the region is a sodomite.
All fall short of what God wants of us. He formed the outer Earth as a tectonic system that some may succumb to, but that our species overall may live upon.
This priest reminds me of Pat Robertson, who said something similar after an earthquake in LA in the early nineties without realizing that without tectonics he’d have literally nothing to stand on, nor broadcast from.
From a Biblical standpoint, Cavalcoli is certainly more in tune than the Vatican is, whose rebuke smacks of antisemitism, frankly.
The fact that there are no human beings that do not sin is covered in the OT as well, especially 1 Kings 8:46 and Ecclesiastes 7:20. But that does not mean that God is fickle in such actions as upheavals of the earth, weather et al.