In a January 1982 letter to the Church of Scotland magazine, "Life and Work", Wolfe attacked the appointment of a papal nuncio to the United Kingdom. In a subsequent letter to "The Scotsman" in April 1982, following the outbreak of the Falklands War, he said it would be a negation of democracy for "the cruel and ruthless fascist dictatorship of a Roman Catholic state", i.e. Argentina, to take over the "mainly Protestant and democratically minded Falklanders, mostly descendants of Scots". In both instances the SNP's National Executive Committee disowned Wolfe's statements, causing Wolfe to withdraw his candidacy from that year's election for the office of party president. Wolfe later apologised for his remarks, saying "I ask for forgiveness of those whom I hurt, if they understand me now. I can see myself then as others saw me ... I don't know why I did it". His second wife, Kate McAteer, was a practising Roman Catholic.