[sinkspur]

odds are it will be an italian

I agree with you. Tettamanzi is my bet.

[hansel]

I agree as well. Tettamanzi seems very possible.

Please, no franco-canadian pope.

I'm not too wild about the Indonesian, either.

[theophilusscribe]

Tettamanzi

He looks a little like Blessed John XXIII

[Willie Green]

My bet is that it'll be somebody that most people have never heard of...
Somebody who is NOT on the Top Twenty List...
They don't have to pick a cardinal or even a bishop, you know...
Theoreticly, they can pick ANY male Catholic, doesn't even have to be a priest, could be a layman. (But they ARE required to make him a Bishop as soon as he's elected Pope.)
I certainly don't think they'll go to that extreme, but for sake of discussion, I'm just pointing out how wide open the possibilities are.