So, whats up with the Pope then?

[Pogle]

Illness? About to be unmasked as having done something V. dodgy in his youth?
All wild speculations welcomed

[Sysman]

Someone has already kicked off with a few suggestions

(Just to lower the tone, like)

[SimonMac]

Just saying, if Robbie Coltrane can be elected as Pope I will throw my pointy hat into the ring too #PopeIdol

[Zippy]

He's finally met the right woman/man?

[SimonMac]

Someone has already kicked off with a few suggestions

(Just to lower the tone, like)

He got away with being a Nazi who covered up kiddie fiddling, what on earth could be so bad to top that?

[Mich the Tester]

He's realised the popemobile's an IR35 liability.

[VectraMan]

Isn't he meant to be God's representative on earth and chosen by God for the role? That's not something you can resign from; isn't it up to God to fire him? Or was God wrong all along? Was somebody else really God's choice and it's all been a scam?

You could almost believe religion makes absolutely no sense.

[Sysman]

Speckulashun started when he turned 85 last April

Edit: It started before that:

Talk of possible resignation has been swirling around the pope ever since his 2010 book, “Light of the World,” in which he said that if a pope felt “no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of carrying out the duties of his office,” he would have “the right, and in some circumstances the obligation, to resign.”

[Gibbon]

Illness? About to be unmasked as having done something V. dodgy in his youth?
All wild speculations welcomed

I saw him at Saint Paul outside the walls (Rome) on 25/02/13. He was very frail and came down the nave on a motorised golden zimmer. He did speak, at length actually.

Maybe he's got onset Alzheimers?

[Zippy]

The papal souvenir business was dropping off?