Benedict XVI has busy calendar for 2011

For Pope Benedict XVI, the 2011 calendar already holds a full slate of meetings, liturgies and foreign trips.

What's not on the calendar - at least so far - is a special "year of" or a "year for." In 2008-2009, the pope declared a Year of St Paul. He designated 2009-2010 the Year for Priests.

Perhaps 2011 will mark the Year of Business as Usual for the German Pontiff, who turns 84 in April.

Unlike the past three years, there is no Synod of Bishops on the horizon in 2011. Most people are not expecting a consistory this year, either, and there is no sign that the Pope plans to convene the world's cardinals at the Vatican for other reasons.