{"id":13964,"date":"2025-05-04T11:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2025-05-04T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:41:23","slug":"odds-on-the-next-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13964","title":{"rendered":"Odds on the next pope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The College of Cardinals is gathering in the Sistine chapel and soon the papal conclave will convene to elect the next pope. They’ll leave their cell phones behind and go into isolation for prayer, discussions, and voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The papal conclave has it’s roots all the way back to how the original bishops were elected by the apostles – but has undergone a long and storied history<\/a> to fight everything from political meddling to setting age limits of who is to be elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the faithful, it’s a time for prayer and fasting, which is probably why you don’t get quite the media circus of a presidential election. I know I have been praying the Church gets a worthy and wonderful pope in these rocky global times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those with a more speculative propensity, Sportsbook Review has the current odds on who the next pope will be<\/a>. It appears to live update, so check back often if you want to know who’s in the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the odds for the top 10 candidates who could be named the next pope via\u00a0Sports Interaction<\/a>\u00a0in Ontario. Odds as of Thursday, May 1. (If you’re in the U.S., you can make predictions on the next pope via Kalshi<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n