Idaho sixth grader picks next Pope in a class assignment, and gets it right

A sixth-grade student at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Boise had a surprising prediction come true when she randomly selected the cardinal who would become the next pope.

“They were like, he’s the pope, he’s the pope, and they screamed it down the halls, and we were, like, ‘Yay he got elected,’ and I was like, ‘That’s my guy, that’s my guy.'”

Olivia Fisher and her classmates were given an assignment to pick a cardinal at random who might become the next pope. Her selection, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, made her the only student to correctly predict the historic choice…

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