Odds on the next pope?

[Gob]

Place your bets here...

Love these;

Richard Dawkins 666/1
Father Dougal Maguire 1000/1
Bono also 1000/1

[Lord Jim]

Richard Dawkins 666/1

My, how very appropriate....

[Guinevere]

Im just curious to see if they will pick a non-European.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I'm curia to see if they pick someone of whom they are 100% sure there's no cassock-lifting in the background.

[RayThom]

A holy, christ-like, layman could just as easily be elected to this most high calling. Of course, odds are slim to none that this will happen. Once you eliminate homosexuals, and paedophile enabling Cardinals the field is winnowed down considerably.

One thing for sure, and absolute, is that Turkson, or other non-white guys, don't stand a chance. In Turkson's case his odds appear to be great but this is just to tickle minority catholic asses with a feather. It makes the big boys look all inclusive but we all know they are exclusive. I'm pretty sure Karl Rove is doing the number crunching here. He's great at polishing the turds.

And in the end. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. And we will be fooled again. God help us all.

[Sean]

I'm curia to see if they pick someone of whom they are 100% sure there's no cassock-lifting in the background.

I doubt it Meade, I'm sure it's in the rules somewhere that he has to be a Catholic.

[The Hen]

I'm backing Bishop Brennan, with Father Dougall McGuire as a sentimental favourite.

[oldr_n_wsr]

My hats in the ring. Don't know if I have a chance, but I have a good war chest for the fight.

[Guinevere]

There is indeed, an app for that -- called "Conclave" its free and available for iPhone and Android phone.

"Conclave" also ranks the potential candidates -- and it agrees with the bookies as to the top candidate, but its a bit of a mix afterwards.

[oldr_n_wsr]

There is indeed, an app for that -- called "Conclave" its free and available for iPhone and Android phone.

Now if I only had an iPhone, or Android phone (or any cell phone for that matter).

my Oboma phone expired and I am too cheap to get another cell phone. I once designed them, I have no need to buy them.

[Gob]

There is indeed, an app for that -- called "Conclave" its free and available for iPhone and Android phone.

Amazing!

[MajGenl.Meade]

I hear the Cardinals sent out their last tweets before being sequestered. They were threatened with dire consequences (even excommunication?) should they tweet or otherwise communicate with the outside world.

Meanwhile in Rome the other cardinals were also doing something or other

[oldr_n_wsr]

White smoke, black smoke. Why can't we get blue or red smoke?

[Crackpot]

too pagan

[Econoline]

White smoke, black smoke. Why can't we get blue or red smoke?

I had to look twice to make sure that post didn't come from rubato.

[oldr_n_wsr]

White smoke, black smoke. Why can't we get blue or red smoke yellow or magenta?

There, I fixed it.

[Scooter]

No pope yet.

[Crackpot]

That's nut what the illuminati, 12 jew bankers and the rest of MOTU want you to think

[Scooter]

Oh Lord, Steve is back.

[Scooter]

Now we know how the cardinals will be entertaining themselves between votes:

A day ahead of the papal conclave, faces at the scandal-struck Vatican were even redder than usual after it emerged that the Holy See had purchased a €23 million (£21 million) share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna.

The senior Vatican figure sweating the most due to the unlikely proximity of the gay Europa Multiclub is probably Cardinal Ivan Dias, the head of the Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples, who is due to participate in tomorrow’s election at the Sistine Chapel.

This 76-year-old “prince of the church” enjoys a 12-room apartment on the first-floor of the imposing palazzo, at 2 Via Carducci, just yards from the ground floor entrance to the steamy flesh pot. There are 18 other Vatican apartments in the block, many of which house priests.