Papal name change

Pope Francis has declared that the Vatican Secret Archive isn’t so secret after all. Francis yesterday officially changed the name of the Holy See archive — a vast trove of documents, manuscripts and papyrus of popes past — to the Vatican Apostolic Archive. Francis noted that the archive has long been open to scholars and that he himself has decreed that the archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII, accused by some of not speaking out enough about the Holocaust, would open to researchers ahead of schedule on March 2, 2020.