text: Yes, I quite agree. Very good on exalting St. John XXIII as patron, interceding for all those working for the progressive values of Vatican II.
  
  Whether St. Augustine (whom I more often admire, as a keen student of Neoplatonism, and as Latin stylist) was a "psychological mess," exactly, I cannot say. But (1) I deplore his authoritarianism, as seen especially in his too easy justification of warfare conducted by Christians (the foundations of "just war theory"); and then (2) I deplore even more those subsequent Catholic thinkers, falsely so called, over the centuries, who plainly do not like thinking on their own, but much prefer to throw themselves at the feet of the idolized Fathers, Augustine in the first place.