There is something disarmingly likeable about Mark Dowd. Following on from his benign article about Pope Benedict in The Catholic Herald last week, his film on BBC2 last night, Benedict: Trials of a Pope, was not the waspish hatchet job that one would expect from, say, fellow journalist Polly Toynbee, who was furious with the Church yet again in the Guardian earlier this week. (It can’t do her blood pressure any good.) Indeed, I got the distinct impression that he respects - if not reveres - the Holy Father, but feels constrained by the task of making a BBC documentary into taking a heavy public "stand" on controversial issues.