Chances are high that the next pope will be Hungarian!

Cardinal Péter Erdő Hungarian Catholic Church next pope

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A new study has revealed the odds and predictions of the next Pope, and with odds at 10/1, Cardinal Péter Erdő from Hungary features in 2nd place!

OLBG has revealed the bookies odds for five names linked to the role of becoming the next Pope – and both Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, and Cardinal Marc Ouelletis of Canada are the current favourites at 7/1.

Next Pope Betting Odds

The odds have revealed. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the former Archbishop of Manila, and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, former Archbishop of Canada, are the favourites at 5/1. Both Cardinal Péter Erdő, the former Archbishop of Budapest, and Bishop Angelo are presently positioned as the second favourites, sharing odds of 10/1.

Potential Next Pope	Nationality	Betting Odds
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle	Philippines	7/1
Cardinal Marc Ouellet	Canada	7/1
Cardinal Péter Erdő	Hungary	10/1
Bishop Angelo De Donatis	Italy	10/1
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn	Austria	12/1

Cardinal Péter Erdő on Pentecost Sunday in front of Saint Peter’s basilica in Budapest:

Former Favourite, Ghanaian Peter Turkson drifts right out to 66/1, would have had become the first black pope if he were to be elected.

Did you know?

The current Pope is Francis, who was elected to be Supreme Pontiff in March 2013 when Pope Benedict XVI resigned. Pope Francis is set to spend the next few days in hospital (from Wednesday 29th March) with a respiratory infection. Both cardinals Peter Turkson and Marc Ouellet were towards the head of the next Pope betting in 2013 when Pope Francis was chosen. You can view the full odds again by clicking HERE.

The only Hungarian who had a real chance of becoming the leader of the Roman Catholic world was the poor but witty son of a serf, Tamás Bakócz at the beginning of the 16th century. He spent a fortune on the election, read HERE the astonishing details.

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Forwardness - Progressiveness not Backwardness; says:

14/07/2023 at 19:47

PLEASE – we have a AGED old saying in the Vatican City.
“He who enters the Conclave as a favoured for the Chair of St. Peter, as a Cardinal, leaves as a Cardinal.”
Cardinal Peter Erdo – certainly would not be a PROGRESSIVE Pope, as he is not viewed in-side Hungary, no by those in the KNOW, being a PROGRESSIVE Cardinal of the Holy Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, if he got near causing White smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel.
Cardinal Erdo – entrenched – in the religious ideas and philosophy of (2) two Popes – his HERO Popes , being Saint Pope John Paul 11 and Pope Benedict XV1.
The extreme FAR right, in Cardinal Erdo, his conservatism, his PRACTICE of “Aged” traditionalism in Catholicism, possible his priesthood, more suited to pre Vatican 11, is not an “instrument” – indeed not a messenger – in taking the Word of God into – not just Hungary but Globally – that would be that as a PROGRESSOR from the Chair of St Peter.
Cardinal Erdo’s adapted on-going position of SILENCE, in the cataclysmic DECLINE of Hungary, the eradication of DEMOCRACY, the GROWING millions living there lives just in SURVIVAL mode, a country literally on its KNEES – growing in RAMPANT disclosure – that the RICH are GETTING Richer and the Poor are Getting POORER – but the position Cardinal Erdo maintains is SILENCE.
Cardinal Erdo – is FAILING his FLOCK not speaking out against the DESTRUCTION to Human Life factually occurring in Hungary, a country, that 43% of its AGED and declining population, have been baptized into the Faith of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Cardinal Erdo is not a PROGRESSOR and if the “Book Makers” in this the Holy City are running a book on the next Pontiff elect, these odds of 10/1 – are extremely generous that should be like 30/1.
Is the Holy Roman Catholic Church of Hungary in the time Cardinal Peter Erdo has been its Cardinal, is it better off – has Erdo “grown the church” are there more “bums on pews” now, since he became a “Prince of the Church” ???
Simple answer is NO which is not helped by the mere fact that just 6% -7% of baptized Roman Catholic’s in Hungary – PRACTICE there Faith.
It would be totally the WRONGFUL direction for the FUTURE of the Holy Roman Catholic Church – those “Princes of the Church” – if they listening to the Holy Spirit, went in a direction of the choosing a conservative and traditionalist – in the next CONCLAVE.