I've been having fun on the Guardian's Comment is Free site today ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/10/religion-catholicism ) criticising Pope Benedict XVI for his frantic efforts to make a saint of his wartime predecessor Pius XII. I think the Vatican's conduct in the era of Fascism and Nazism was unpardonable. I resent profoundly its refusal to open its archives to professional historians.