The media is buzzing again about the impending death of the pope. I am told by a source in the know that nothing has much changed. He’s been sick for awhile, he still is (he’s not going to get better if I understand Parkinson’s disease right). My source suggests he is not on his death bed, and, far from it, may simply be heading into a new, less visible phase of his papacy. Obviously he won’t live forever, but I wouldn’t count him out yet.