Good for that priest!  It's about time to abolish the prohibition against birth control too.  In fact, it's long overdue.  ////  God is not static.  God is ever-changing.  Just look at us, our earth, our universe -- changing all the time.  If Jesus lived today, we'd have a very different RCC. ////  Just for starters:  priests are blessing the union of two old people who cannot get legally married for whatever reasons.  No mature priest considers missing Mass on Sunday a mortal sin (I intensely disliked Sunday Mass -- so I went to daily weekday Mass -- I never had a priest tell me I was committing a mortal sin -- and that was 40 years ago!.)  Many priests allow birth control on a case-by-case basis, and I would bet big bucks that Pope Francis would allow birth control AND remarriage after divorce, if he could he could act alone.  [While I loved The RCC of the 50s, it wasn't realistic, and it changed -- for the better.  Do I get nostalgic at  times?  Of course.  But I wouldn't go back.]