The Church changes its mind too often to be always in the right. I do not think it such a terrible notion and certainly my priest at home would not have called it heresy.
He lived by what he believed and that made him a good and honorable men. The tragedy of war is that there are always many such men on both sides.
You are grieving and all the usual polite remarks about the fortunes of war cannot touch upon your grief. Might you allow me to visit you? It is not a time to be alone.