IRELAND
New York Daily News
By Stephen Rex Brown / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, March 10, 2013
There’s a new favorite in the Popestakes: Italy’s Angelo Cardinal Scola is 2-1 to be the next pontiff, overtaking the previous front-runner, Ghana’s Peter Cardinal Turkson, who is at 4-1, according to Irish bookie Paddy Power.
Rory Scott, a spokesman for the legal bookmaker, said the lengthy deliberations among the cardinals last week worked in Scola’s favor, because the formal conclave this week is now likely to move faster.
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