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Gee, do you really think so? Olive trees grow in various countries, not just Italy. But certainly this cannot the only requirement for this exhaulted office.
France, Spain, Portutal, Greece and few others have olive trees. For all those of you haveing the next pope be a doddering old Italia , a strong break from the tranditions. The only true requirement is that be a 30-year-old male. Not likely, but possible.

He might have olove skin, or his family may be referred to it in the a man's name, or be from an area or cstle referred to by St. Malachy and which will perhaps to be true's in today's day. Who knows?

Pure speculation is pointlesss if we're not going to take wagers on the top seeded guys. I vote for the Latin Americans, the African, and that Ratzinger guy.

While I'm a natural skeptic, I'm also a Catholic who thinks the next pope will likely be Latin American. Simply look to the numbers of Catholics there as well as the growth in recent years. I'm not voting, and I'm glad I'm not, but chances are very good it's one of four Latin American candidates. Will it be an Italian? Probably not, but only God and the cardinals will know.

As to prophecies from St. Malachy, I find them fascinating, though I don't know much about them to judge. Anything by Nostradamus I'm going to skip. We're all free to believe as we wish, but I'm truly unconvinced by his so-called writings (after several months of doing research and trying to translate the obscure and difficult works). No one has yet to come up with a single document written before the 1800's, particularly nothing in his own hand; it's widely believed his followers may have written some of the quatrains after the events took place. Was he probably a holy man who had visions of the future? Most likely, yes. But should we accept his supposed words simply because they're written down somewhere? No. Think about it.