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Canon Law
The pope doesn't have to report to his superiors, submit his two weeks notice and wait for them to approve it. He has no superiors on earth. All this required is that he freely resigns. In other words, if you put a gun to the pope's head and say, sign s or else, that's not valid resignation. None the pope is mentally incapacitated, and you just said, sign here, but he didn't know, right?