NPR just said Ratzinger's winning

[mrgorth]

FYI

[Maeve]

1. That's just nonsense

Unless they are talking about the betting at Paddy Power, the Irish pool. You can follow the odds here:http://www.popebetting.com/pope-betting.htm

[mrgorth]

10. Cough. Cough.

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. Not a single vote cast yet.

NPR is speculating...

[Zynx]

3. Given the secrecy involved, no one knows anything.

[UrbScotty]

4. How do they know?

Cardlinals are supposed to be mum about this.

Besides, look what happened in 1978.

Besides, Dean led the Dem field, and Kerry led Bush.

[CBHagman]

5. How many cardinals work at NPR?

And what actually did the commentator on NPR say? And who was it?

[mrgorth]

6. Since you made this seem like a challenge

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4599902

[CBHagman]

8. That link should have been in your original post.

It's unfair to start a thread based on "NPR just said Ratzinger's winning. FYI."

[mrgorth]

9. I was in a rush.

[CBHagman]

12. But you were right, after all was said and done.

I have to eat all my optimistic words of the past days.

Please pass the tomato sauce. Gulp!

[Maeve]

7. Here's Fr Greeley's column on the issue

http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-nws-greeley15a.html

Note:Greeley is a long-time observer of Vatican politics--he wrote "The Making of the Popes 1978: The Politics of Intrigue in the Vatican" in 1979

[4_Legs_Good]

11. Cool! Thanks so much

I've been dying to know what he's been thinking! I LOVED his "Making of the Popes" book, and have been hoping he'd write another for this conclave.

david