Pope Retires

The Pope, Benedict the XVI is retiring. I thought this story looked a little interesting, being as I am a Christian. I had never known that a Pope could actually retire. Benedict was saying in this video that he is retiring due to the fact that he has aged quite well and doesn’t have the strength anymore to keep going on with this very large responsibility of his shoulders. I though the Pope looked very old a long time ago. I never really did ever understand why they would always appoint some really old man to be the Pope. You would think that they would begin with having a slightly younger guy out there to be the Pope so that they may last longer and be able to do their work a little bit better. I guess I just don’t understand. I was also a little curious on why we have a Pope in the Catholic faith. I mean what exactly does he do? Plus, why is it always a he? Why has there never been a female Pope? What is so wrong with a female Pope? I still don’t really get that either. Everything for as long as my studies can remember, there have always been men doing all the religious faithful doings within this religion but I never understood why or what the significance of having only the males do all the work and not have any females in the picture. It baffles me! Okay, so this Pope that they have now is very old and retiring. What are they going to do now? Do they just go and appoint another Pope? Who do they select from? Do they just go out and find a priest somewhere or is it more like how they found the Dali Lama? Whey they went out and found some kid but in this case a very old man?