Chad Varah, Anglican vicar RIP

has some explaining of his own to do at St Peter's Gate , after Luther who called the Pope a donkey and Galileo the Pope a dunce, to show the paucity of their theological arguments.

He had conceived, at the age of 9, the idea of a land called Refugia which would provide a homeland for all dispossessed and fugitive peoples; and referred to the Pope as “a good holy man, but Public Enemy No 3 or 4”

for his obduracy on contraception, telling The Sunday Telegraph in 1993: “It was a great mistake to make an ignorant Polish peasant into a Pope.”


What is the point of running around in a Pelagian frenzy of good works and not have a good word to say about the Vicar of Christ on earth? While I may have some reserve about Pope John Paul II's use of personalist philosophy, an ignorant peasant he was not.

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Sanctus Belle said…
John Paul may very well have prayed for the salvation of this man's soul. I pray he died in God's good graces.