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Subject First black pope? Emerging contenders include cardinals from Africa

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I have been posting for several YEARS on here to say why Turkson will be the next Pope.  Here is what I posted...

He fits on lists and lists of grounds.

- Malachy predicts "Peter" and his name is Peter.

- Malachy predicts "Peter the Roman" - After leaving Ghana, he studied entirely in Rome. As a result, he instantly gained and still has the nickname in his own village of "Peter the Roman".

- Another prophecy stated that the last Pope would be the "son of a Turk". This has always been suggested that it would be because he would not really believe what he stated. However, Peter's name literally IS "Turkson"

- There is huge pressure in the Catholic Church to have a black Pope and a Third World Pope. He is both.

- After an old Pope, they always pick a young Pope. Turkson is the second youngest cardinal.

- By tradition, Popes are selected from countries who are weak politically. Ghana is not a superpower.

- The Catholic Church does not wish to select a Pope from a country that is unstable, where a Pope could be pulled into a civil war or be blackmailed. Although Ghana is a dictatorship, it is stable.

- The wing of the Church that Turkson is associated with is very close to the existing leadership during the last two Popes.

- The pedophile scandal has spread across Europe, North and South America. Africa is pretty much unscathed however and Turkson has not been involved in any such scandal.
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Original Message The Roman Catholic Church very well could elect its first black pope — or, at the least, its first pope of non-European descent, according to various strategists and analysts.

The Telegraph reports that two princes of the church have emerged as top contenders for the top spot: Cardinals Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Ghana and Francis Arinze of Nigeria. Electing one would send a black man — for the first time in history, or at least since the early Middle Ages, according to The Telegraph — to head the church’s spiritual direction.

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