Paddy Power has re-released odds on the identity of the next Pope after Pope John Paul II went into hospital for the second time this year.
Pope John Paul II is recovering in a Rome hospital after surgery to alleviate severe breathing problems. The company has made 70-year-old Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, the Archbishop of Milan, its firm favourite as next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Tettamanzi, at 5-2, is ahead of 74-year-old Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, 3-1, and 68-year-old Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino of Cuba, 11-2. |