Last Monday, Panorama broadcast an investigation into the personal letters written by Pope John Paul II to a married woman. The programme presenter found himself torn between his interest as a journalist and his conscience as a Catholic While we were editing last Monday night’s Panorama programme on Karol Wojtyla’s relationship with Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, we watched a feast of images from the 1970s and 1980s. It was a pleasure to be reminded what a commanding figure he was as a campaigning cardinal and then a young pope; the pictures of those vast crowds he drew on his first papal pilgrimage to Poland can still stir the soul.So why, I found myself asking, was I devoting so much time and energy to an investigation that might be interpreted as an attempt to discredit him? No