[Partisan Gunslinger]

The last hundred or however many of St. Malachy's prophecies have been pretty much debunked as hoaxes or illegitimate additions to the original list.

No, it was the first hundred or so. There was no need to alter the last hundred by whoever did it because they did it to insert their own candidate in the 1500s. They didn't know what the last hundred meant so they left them as is. They changed the one in their time to say a pope would come from the "old city". It didn't work, he lost anyway.

Who knows what the first hundred said.

At any rate, the Old and New Testament was God's Word, and anything after that you gotta watch out because it may be demons playing tricks. That being said, they hit at least the last 3 spot on. Before Benedict was elected, Malachy sites called the name he would take beforehand, and they were right, because of the tie between "Benedict" and olives.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Actually there were only 112 in the Malachy prophesy.So maybe 55 unchanged, 55 of the first ones changed, or so.

I predict Bertone, Pius XIII.

[steve86]

You are parroting Fr. Thibaut's take on the prophecies, which is not necessarily correct.

Also, on the "Benedict and olives" purported connection, I have used that myself, but the notion was resoundingly debunked by others with more knowledge on this very forum. We amateurs can try but won't necessarily get it right.