I've done a lot of looking at the bishops around the world lately and I began to notice a pattern: It seems like early in John Paul II's pontificate, he picked a lot of fairly young priests to become bishops. But eventually, he started picking older and older men for the higher posts? Was it because as he got older, he trusted older men more? But then, towards the end of his pontificate, he reverted to picking younger men. Then it occurred to me that Pope Benedict seemed to be picking either very old, or very young men for his...