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VATICAN CITY – A prominent African cardinal said Monday there was no reason why the next pope couldn’t be black, particularly following the election of President Barack Obama.
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Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Ghana is playing an important role in guiding a three-week meeting at the Vatican on the challenges of the Catholic Church in Africa.
At a news conference Monday, Turkson was asked whether he thought the time was right for a black pope, especially in light of Obama’s election.
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“Why not?” Turkson replied. He argued that every man who agrees to be ordained a priest has to be willing to be a pope, and is given training along the way as bishop and cardinal. “All of that is part of the package.”
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More: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091005/ap_on_re/eu_vatican_black_pope
 
I was hoping for Arinze this last time, the time is ripe for a pope from Africa or Latin America
 
I admit to being a racist, but surely THE most important thing is that the Pope is a Catholic man who follows what God wants him to do based on the Bible and is a man of absolute integrity and honesty. It doesn’t matter whether he is from Europe, Africa, the Middle East or where ever.

The fact that past Popes since St Peter have been white should have no bearing on any future Pontiff.His job above all else to get the faithful to Heaven even at great personal cost. The colour of his skin and where he came from should have no bearing on any future Pope’s ability to perform his job. The only criteria should be “Can this man lead the faithful of the Holy Roman Catholic Church to God the Father?”.
 
There are so many Catholics in Africa now, and other Catholics across the World. It is important to have a Black pope. I don’t think there has ever been one.
 
There have already been 4 African Popes throughout history.🤷 One of our Diocese Priest is here from Nigeria and he is the man.👍 He is at odds though, with many in the so called Black community because he tells it like it is regarding Mr. Obama and publicly admonishes “poverty pushers” because he says they do not know real poverty.
 
GratefulDad said:
There have already been 4 African Popes throughout history.🤷 One of our Diocese Priest is here from Nigeria and he is the man.👍 He is at odds though, with many in the so called Black community because he tells it like it is regarding Mr. Obama and publicly admonishes “poverty pushers” because he says they do not know real poverty.
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What are their names?

I thought that was just a conspiracy theory.
 
If the next pope is chosen because of his race, that will be a sad step backwards. If the next pope is strong and readily confronts the tide of modernism, then that is the correct choice. Race should not enter into the equation.
 
lemonbeam said:
What are their names?

I thought that was just a conspiracy theory.
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Their was a fourth but I could not find the name right now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_popes

Three popes of the Roman Catholic Church have had African birth. According to the records of the Liber Pontificalis, all three were from the Roman Province of Africa (corresponding to the territory of modern Tunisia and Libya). The conquest of Byzantine North Africa by Muslims during the 7th century largely eliminated the chance for another African pope until modern times.

Pope Victor I (189 to 199)
Pope Miltiades (310/311 to 314)
Pope Gelasius I (492 to 496)
 
There are some really, really, really strong African priests and nuns visiting parishes these days! If the ones I’ve had the honor to encounter are any representation of the greater Church in Africa, black or not, I think an African Vicar of Christ would be wonderful!

Race or origin may be a legitimate factor, I think, when a new pope is selected. I wasn’t around when the papacy seemed to be held only by Italians, but an Asian, African, Central/South American, or Middle Eastern papacy might promote the Church’s message of universality. Could you imagine if someone like Bishop He became pope in a hypothetical distant future (I’m hoping the Lord allows B16 to hang around for a while:))? Wasn’t Pope John Paul II’s election a direct confrontation to the horrors of the Soviet Union’s occupation of Poland? Wasn’t His Holiness instrumental is bringing together the movement that eventually toppled the Soviet Union’s puppet government in his native country?

Here’s a brief article of Bishop He, he’s the first Chinese bishop to pop up on a Google search:
asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4404
 
rlg94086 said:
I agree with the cardinal that the next pope could be black…certainly there are black cardinals to choose from…but I am perplexed by this comment: “particularly following the election of President Barack Obama.”

Does the College of Cardinals generally make their choices based on the US electorate choices? :confused:
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I figured out how Obama entered the picture. I went back to reread the article. The interviewer begins by asking if it’s likely that we will have a black pope in light of the fact that Obama was elected in the USA. The Cardinal responds to the question in the same context that the reporter asks it.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
Sounds like they read some questionable things into his remarks on Aids and condoms. I don’t know if that’s what he really meant, but they implied that if he were pope he would permit condom use between married couples.
 
puzzleannie said:
I was hoping for Arinze this last time, the time is ripe for a pope from Africa or Latin America
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I still remember the interregium period when the Cardinals were in conclave. Some nitwit CNN reported said that Cardinal Arizne could be the first “African American” pope.

I mean really, she was wrong on some many counts I almost gagged.
 
JReducation said:
I figured out how Obama entered the picture. I went back to reread the article. The interviewer begins by asking if it’s likely that we will have a black pope in light of the fact that Obama was elected in the USA. The Cardinal responds to the question in the same context that the reporter asks it.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
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Ah…thanks JR, that makes sense. This is how reporters throw their own bias/viewpoints into interviews.
 
Ok so there could be a black pope, so what? The notion that we should elect a black pope simply because we’ve never had one is verrryyy dangerous. Please just give the church the BEST pope, no the one that will make it look good to the world. Remember, Obama was pretty much elected because this country “needed” a black president, and we all know how that’s going so far.

As far as im concerned, so long as we keep making race an issue, racism will exist. It is only when we stop caring whether someone is white, black, asian, whatever that racism will stop.
 
rlg94086 said:
Ah…thanks JR, that makes sense. This is how reporters throw their own bias/viewpoints into interviews.
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In a court of law that could be called leading the witness. In an interview, I call it “framing the question.” That has happened to me too. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on something, but the way that the question is worded you have to dance around it very gingerly. It recently happened to the archbishop of Los Angeles too. I saw the interview and the question was setup in such a way that it was “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” He tried to get out of it by not answering it, but that made him look worse.

I just love the media. :eek:

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
johngh said:
Remember, Obama was pretty much elected because this country “needed” a black president, and we all know how that’s going so far.
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Now, there’s a political statement. The president surely got a lot of votes, even on an ‘as needed’ basis.
johngh said:
As far as im concerned, so long as we keep making race an issue, racism will exist. It is only when we stop caring whether someone is white, black, asian, whatever that racism will stop.
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Actually, only when there are no further pre-judgments based on race does racism stop. The EEOC is still in business.
 
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