Pope's Been Taken to the Hospital

Could we please get a progressive one this time, asked the lapsed Catholic?

It's time everything in the Catholic Church didn't flow to Vatican City to buy more and more gold, while leaving local parishes poor. It's also time to get a Pope whose mind isn't stuck somewhere around the 15th century. We had one perhaps in JP1, but if you notice, he didn't last too long (popes don't retire, they expire).

But JP2 isn't dead but frankly, I thought he would pass soon after that special year they had around the millennium where he traveled everywhere.