I can't comment on the head vicar of your parish although I can speculate upon the type of parish you attend. As I said in my post, "cujus parrochus ejus religio". If that is the stance of your parish priest then he is a dissenter.
"It is a historical fact," is precisely the same as , "everyone knows." You simply cannot make statements like that without any attempt to support what you assert. I do not accept that it is, "a historical fact," so convince me that what you say is true.