The fact that cardinals serve up to and often beyond the age of 80 could start to get expensive, according to one octogenarian with a red hat. In a 2011 interview, Cardinal Francis Arinze fretted about the cost to the Vatican of flying his body home to Nigeria should he die in Rome.“It is very expensive for a corpse to fly on a plane. Even if that person doesn’t eat in the business class, even though he is in the baggage area!” chuckled the prefect-emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Although the cardinal said the time was “dangerously near”, he now no longer has to include the caveat “if I reach 80” and seems in no hurry to abandon his St Peter’s Square penthouse quite yet.The conversation appears in the recent book Ten African