The Pope retires? ?:|

[i-need-a-martini]

I wouldn't have thought it would be the kind of job you retired from - I thought those guys kept their jobs until their death? 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/pope-says-he-will-resign-on-february-28-20130211-2e95l.html

[ashjoma]

Maybe he has some dementia developing (at his advancing age) and this is a polite way of removing him gracefully