ON THE DAY BEFORE THE CONCLAVE FOUR CARDINALS ARE BEING FOCUSED ON.............

With one day to go before the College of Cardinals enter into the secret Conclave to elect the next Pope of the Roman Catholic Church NBC News is reporting this morning that with no presumptive individual candidate going in thought to have the edge in being able to accumulate the two thirds plus one vote necessary of the 115 Cardinal eligible electors under the age of 80; four seem most prominent in the figuring of who will ultimately be chosen.  The favored Roman Curia candidate is +Odilo Scherer, 63; the Cardinal Archbishop of Sao Paolo, Brazil.  Many Western Nation electors seem to be leaning toward +Angelo Scola, 71; the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, Italy.  The change in view that the United States as a superpower is disqualified from serious consideration in selecting a Pope from, adds New York Cardinal Archbishop +Timothy Dolan, 62; and the Archbishop of Boston,   Cardinal +Sean O'Malley, 68; a Franciscan, as the leading names of, "papabili", potential Popes, on the eve of the Conclave's start.  Thaverage age of the Cardinal attending the Papal Conclave is 72.  Another bit of analysis yesterday stated that the 2005 Conclave into which Cardinal +Joseph Ratzinger went into the Conclave the acknowledged frontrunner; and came out of it as Pope Benedict XVI; took a day and a half to elect him - that the 2013 Conclave is likely to take three days or longer to reach a more than two thirds consensus required for electing the new Pope.  I will continue blogging on all details and developments of Updating the Papal Conclave 2013.  More Soon.............Fr.  Troy