No, that's not an idiom in the headline; this guy literally pops his eyes out of his sockets and now holds the world record for it....

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/greycrofts-dana-settle-vc-firms-152500017.html...

The cardinals may elect a new pope who continues the errors, the silence. But their failures do not excuse ours. We must cling to the faith – not sentimentality, not nostalgia....