[smpb]

I don't know why everyone here is assuming that Cardinals would be affected by a change in the retirement age. While cardinals have to submit their resignations at 75, like other bishops, the pope has generally let them stay on in their sees well past that, usually till they are 80 or so. Unless there is a health problem.

[dangus]

>> I don't know why everyone here is assuming that Cardinals would be affected by a change in the retirement age. <<

I'm not. I certainly didn't mean to imply that I was.