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An African Cardinal could become next Pope - Palmer Buckle

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  • Kwesi Owusu 11 years ago

    I want to organise a a travel agency operating for family members from Cape-Coast to the Vatican

  • Ekow Aikins 11 years ago

    Glory be to God

  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    This European church with Swiss guards as the pope's main guard is as European as it can get so why any BLACK MAN wants to be part of it unless you want to an uncle tom.
    A neutral European nation is agreed upon as to be th ...
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  • Torgbigah 11 years ago

    Look, my brother africans,, forget about black being a pope,, white man is evil and will never see fellow whites,and give blacks any post in this world,, Obama was lucky,,,and believe me,, never after Obama americans will pic ...
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  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    If that answer is big NO then why a black African be a pope for an European political church that instituted slavery and colonization and supported it to the detriment of the African?
    All we can be is to be a" good" church ...
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  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    GHANA WILL THROW ANOTHER STONE AND BRING ABOUT THE FEELING TO ALL AFRICANS

  • Ekow Aikins 11 years ago

    Amen!!

  • Ewusi 11 years ago

    Trumu trumu is nearer to Ghana than we think.

  • anayomi 11 years ago

    NO AFICAN CARDINAL WILL BE POP ANYTIME SOON

  • Benny 11 years ago

    Why not. These people tried to shadow our pride. But God never hide anything. God is colourless.The black people will leading in the World race but when the white people came to our land they did all they could and then with ...
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  • ABU 11 years ago

    Cardinal Appiah Turkson won't make it due to his entrenched anti moslem stand which had been exposed by the CNN and world wide known and noted.

  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    The real milestone will be for all the so-called African catholics and their flunkey priests leave or cease to be part of that evil vatican which is pan-Europen to the core.
    The big basilica built by Houphete Boigne at Yamen ...
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  • TONY 11 years ago

    LOOK, THIS KIND OF NEW POPE SELECTION IS ONLY DONE BY GOD, THEY SAY, BUT WHY PEOPLE ARE MAKING THIS FUSS.

  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    Totally dumb to believe some holy God up in a sky choose a pope.

  • ABU 11 years ago

    Wait for God to chose the pope,God has neither the time nor the fancy chosing a pope or meddle in any religion and its affairs.

  • Senior citizen---Germany. 11 years ago

    It is a right comment the Arch-Bishop Palmer Buckle of Accra has made.The white cardinals have over he years dominated the leadership of the Roman catholic church with little reference to the black population in Africa,meanwh ...
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  • cool 11 years ago

    Once elected,his family members will start founding fufu/light soup, Banku/Tilapia in the Vatican

  • SON OF GHANA 11 years ago

    WE ARE AFRICANS ARE VERY DECEITFUL, LIARS AND CORRUPT. THE MOMENT AN AFRICAN IS CHOSEN TO LEAD THE VATICAN, FINANCIAL MALPRACTICES WILL START ALL OVER THE PLACES. WE WILL RUN THE PLACE DOWN SO MUCH THAT, WITHIN SIX MONTHS, VA ...
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  • agyabroni 11 years ago

    TOO BAD WE DONT THINK OF EACH OTHER.WE PLUNDER AND PILLAGE.WE ARE INTRINSICALLY AND PATHOLOGICALLY SELFISH AND DEVIOUS.THEY ARE ENCODED IN OUR GENES. WHY????? JUST FOR SOMEONE TO SAY 'MASTER' SLAVERY HAS RUINED US.WE ARE STI ...
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  • KPENYIGBA KWESI 11 years ago

    It is not possible for an African Cardinal to become a Papa. Can we name those 2 African Popes ? I do not believe there were!!!!!!
    We should know that Pope Benedict did not resign but he retired. Retire and resign have diffe ...
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  • DER GBAALE 11 years ago

    Pope Gelasius was one of the African Popes. He was Pope some 1,500 years ago.

  • Akwasi Pee 11 years ago

    Stop being naive, Bishop Buckle. I can bet my bottom dollar that if the white dove settles on the head of a black cardinal during the conclave, the Italian cardinals will stand up, remove the dove and physically perch it on t ...
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  • AMARIYA 11 years ago

    I will bet on a Latin American Pope.

  • Kasoa Boy 11 years ago

    Is THE CATHOLIC Church following the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles?

    The New Testament catollogicaly stated that heads of the church must be married men with children, why then Catholic priests and popes don't ...
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  • sika nti 11 years ago

    ghanians lets pray our candle wii last

  • scarecrow 11 years ago

    God is a spirit so those who worship him must worship him in truth and in spirit,He is above us and watching mankind.

  • FRANK PASTRANA 11 years ago

    CARDINAL RAVASI

  • KANEWU 11 years ago

    ALAN KYEREMATENG'S, MOHAMMED MUMUNI'S AND CARDINAL TURKSON'S CANDIDATURES FOR THE WTO DIRECTOR GENERAL AND OTHER POSITIONS ARE A BIG JOKE, AND SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED ALONG NATIONALISTIC LINES, BUT ALONG THE POTENTIAL CANDIDATE' ...
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  • James k. Yin 11 years ago

    Good luck to all the African cardinals

  • Stanleystarry 11 years ago

    I will like to see an African man to be the next pope