"If you think that's safe career-wise."
He frankly did not need this as a Thing to Worry About.
...well, the same logic that says that any of this would be true in the first place, also says that Carissa is the First Girl, and therefore, out of all the girls here, the one who's guaranteed to have a pathway leading to a happy outcome for the two of them. So if she's a cleric unknown to even herself, it'll be a solvable problem.