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Originally Posted by StanT
That would be my guess, though I think that his age works for him, rather than against him. Since popes rule for life, I see the college of cardinals electing an older pope to limit his reign.
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There's supposedly a list of future popes in the Vatican library that was written by a saint in the middle ages. It supposedly lists JPII as the third-to-last pope, and that's why he did everything he could to hold out for so long, because some believe that after the last pope on the list dies, the church dies, or disappears, or is squished by an angry antichrist, or something.
It's all superstitious paranoia based on a document whose existance is questionable at best, but faith and superstition can cross over at times. You neven know what will influence a secret vote.