[Non-Sequitur]

It wouldn't surprise me if the next pope is not one of the ones named.

[hflynn]

Doesn't stop Zogby from making a buck.

American Catholics’ Attitudes About Next Pope: Latin America, Africa top regions for next church leader; half surveyed disagree with upholding celibacy and all-male priesthood.

Le Moyne College/Zogby International Contemporary Catholic Trends Poll

[MikefromOhio]

inpossible to predict, but we will still get to see a couple thousand articles on the subject....

[writmeister]

African-American

I did not know that Cardinal Arinze was American?

Once again, a triumph of the PC-journalism style book over reality.

[KarlInOhio]

Arinze, 72, was appointed by John Paul II in 1985. For the next 17 years, he served as president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. In 2002, he was nominated prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Staunchly conservative, he might also win over more moderate cardinals who believe the election of the church's first African-American pope could advance the cause of social justice.

Arrrgh! Political correctness run wild. Not every black in the world is an African-American. Some are actual, real-life Africans. I know it is hard to believe. So unless Cardinal Arinze plans on becoming a US citizen, he will not be the first African-American pope.

[maestro]

Expert: Papal election impossible to predict

?......where are all those Catholic 'psychics' when you need them?

/psychic 'line'......LOL

[Tax-chick]

Weiss calls Arinze ``the perfect window-dressing candidate . . . someone who looks new and different, but is actually a creature of the Curia.'' ``Theologically conservative, he would look like a revolution in the papacy,'' he said, ``but nothing would change.''

These lines suggest that Weiss has an agenda. Doesn't surprise me that an Episcopalian might have "truth envy."