And at the end of a fine Sunday in Vatican City, the Roman Catholic church had its latest new saint, the 468th of John Paul II's papacy: Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, dead only in 1975 but founder some 70-plus years ago of Opus Dei, an order that has attracted more suspicion not only from anti-clericals than any but the Jesuits.

ECONOMIST: A controversial canonisation