Wow when I first heard about this story I didn’t hear about the angle with the coach too sheesh!
This family has been through living Hell, compounded mightily by the coach’s incredibly self centered behavior and yes by the priest’s homily as well.
Was he (Father) correct, theologically, in everything he said? Yes he was. But it certainly was not the time (at the Mass for their son) to say something like that.
He’s young though he’ll learn (I note the Archdiocese assigned him a mentor for the foreseeable future. Good call).
The coach will probably continue to be an ass though.
He wasn't close to being Scripturally correct.....there is a difference between Roman Catholicism and New Testament Christianity.
And we may be thankful for that.