History in the Making, Where were you? A Curious Conclave?

Interesting developments in the last few days from the Holy See. As many of you will have heard, His Holiness the Pope has announced he will retire from office by the end of the month, the first Pope to do so in nearly 400 years.

The interesting thing is, Papal elections are performed by the College of Cardinals through Conclave , a election in which the Cardinals of the Catholic Church will elect the next Pope. With the Pope still alive, i'm interested to see how it will be done. Normally, the Pope dies in office and the Papal apartments are sealed  following his death. No wonder the Vatican is less than ecstatic about his resignation, he's forcing them to totally change their policy for elections! 

It'll be fascinating to see how this develops