Also interesting to watch the transits, the news of Pope resigning came out when Mercury was around 8 degree Pisces. He will resign from office on 28th February, during the Mercury retrograde. The new Pope voting process will also take place during this Mercury retrograde in Pisces. The voting can take hours, days or a week, then the smoke appears to announce the new Pope.
All here. It would be very interesting if they announced it on March 4th, there is a Mercury cazimi that day. The Ghanain Cardinal is said to be a very communicative person.
Looking further into the predictions around on the web, I found this which was debating which would be the new pope, back in 2005 just prior to The current Pope's Inauguration. Looking back, from 2005 until now, this person's (the blog and book writer) has outlined some quite close to the mark things, shown on their website. They went as far to say Joseph Ratzinger would be the best bet, and his reign would be fairly short.
http://www.hogueprophecy.com/2005/04/the-next-pope-signs-in-nostradamus/