<em>Ecclesial retirement ages and cardinals’ voting age limits, mostly inherited from Paul VI, weren’t legislated before the Second Vatican Council.</em>
From time to time, Church news outlets — including Aleteia — note that a (once-)prominent cardinal has aged out of being able to vote in a conclave upon turning 80. While most of us are so used to the voting age limit as to not think twice about it, we might wonder: How old is this rule, and which pope established it?
Before Vatican II, there was no generalized legislation regarding an upper age limit for
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