Get busy, papabile

I was just reading about Pope Benedict's first general audience, in which he "read out brief summaries of his catechesis, which he had delivered in Italian, in various other languages: English, French, Spanish and German. He then gave brief greetings to various groups in Croatian, Slovenian and Polish." Man, after this Pope and the late beloved John Paul II, who was fluent in 8 languages, the bar has been raised, and I think you can argue definitively. Anybody who fancies himself papabile these days had better get cracking on the languages.