OH, NOOOOoooooooooooooo......just when I thought the Vatican couldn't get any more evil....Now, we got this guy! The first pope too lazy and shiftless to bother with the alter boys....the first pope who'll be shuckin' and jivin' and usin' corn bread and watermelon juice w/gin no doubt for the sacrament. We need revival.
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (pictured), of Ghana, is the bookies' favourite for the job of pope while Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze is seen as an outside contender for the job.
Will the next pope be black? Ghanaian and Nigerian cardinals lead race for Vatican
Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson and Nigeria's Cardinal Francis Arinze in the frame for Roman Catholicism's highest honour
Other non-Europeans include cardinals from Canada and Argentina
But church may want an Italian leader to follow Pole and German popes
Two black African cardinals emerged as frontrunners for the papacy yesterday after the shock resignation of Benedict XVI.
He became the first leader of the Roman Catholic church to step down in 600 years and the first to abdicate through ill-health.
Amid feverish speculation about the succession, two of the favourites were Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson, 64, and Cardinal Francis Arinze from eastern Nigeria.
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