LATEST PICKS AND ODDS FOR NEXT POPE

UPDATE 4/08/05: MY TOP TEN CANDIATES FOR POPE, WITH ODDS; see below...

********UPDATE 4/07/05******* Here's the LINK TO CURRENT ODDS. AND HERE, too.

Here are my LATEST PICKS - IN ORDER - BASED ON MY ANALYSIS, HERE:

(1) Count Christoph v. Schoenborn, (Austria, age 60) - 16-1;

(2) Juan-Luis Cipriani-Thorne (Peru, age 62) - 25-1;

(3) Jean Louis Tauron (France, age 62) - NO ODDS;

(4) Vinco Puljic (Bosnia, age 60) - 100-1;

(5) Josef Bozanic (Croatia age 56) - 100-1;

(6) Crescenzio Seppe (Italy, 62) - 18-1;

(7) Angelo Scola (Italy, 64)-20-1.

ALSO THESE TWO: (IMHO, THESE TWO ARE TOO OLD,

BUT THEY'RE STILL POSSIBLE BECAUSE THEY'RE SO

DOCTRINALLY CLOSE TO THE LATE GREAT PJPII) -

(8) Joseph Ratzinger (Germany age 78) 7-1;

(9) Jean-Marie Lustiger (France, age 79) 12-1;

and rounding out the MY TOP TEN PICKS FOR NEXT POPE-

(10) Wilfred Napier (South Africa, 64) 40-1.

[All links are to official Vatican bio's.]

REMEMBER: Karol Wojtyla wasn't on ANYBODY'S list the last time,

so long-shots and dark horses have a real chance!