Edited sentence: Concerning the modern Catholic attitude on the issue, when honouring him by making him patron saint of statesmen and politicians in October 2000 Pope John Paul II stated: "It can be said that he demonstrated in a singular way the value of a moral conscience... even if, in his actions against heretics, he reflected the limits of the culture of his time".In comparison, during this same period up to 100,000 deaths can be blamed on the German Peasants' Revolt of 1524–25.It seems unlikely that modern Catholics, Protestants, and others could ever easily agree on how many eventually died in Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere as an arguable result of the English Reformation that More was unsuccessfully trying to prevent, and whether or not this cost is outweighed by the benefits of abolishing what has been called "Catholic oppression... by a persecuting church".More and other conservatives (including Henry VIII at this time) openly blamed these deaths on the socially destabilising effects of Luther's heresy, though clearly such conservatives were also trying to prevent other supposed ills, such as eternal agony in Hell for the souls of those misguided into heresy, as well as the suffering of souls in Purgatory supposedly caused by Luther's rejection of indulgences, as argued in More's 1529 work Supplication of Souls