Retiring?
Having never made the short list for the job, I don't know much about the protocol of being Pope. Is he required to keep the title until he dies? If not, why is nobody talking about him maybe stepping aside? Isn't he pretty well incapable of doign much of anything? I think even Southern Baptists would encourage a pastor to retire once he can't muster the breath to speak a single word...

On the other hand, a mute Baptist preacher just may lead the kind of church I could attend.