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Friday, April 08, 2005

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!

2 comments:

AbbaGav said...

How come Arnold's not on the list?

:)

Great information here.

Michael J.W. Stickings said...

For another long-shot (sort of), how about Portugal's Jose Policarpo? He might be a bit too "liberal," as they say, but he could be a bridge between Old Europe and New World (especially Latin America, given his natural ties to Brazil). He'd likely be a safer bet than Hummes.

For my reasoning on this, check out my own blog:

www.the-reaction.blogspot.com

Sorry for the self-promotion, but I think the Astute Blogger is very much one of my own kind...