Although I find it rather ghoulish to post about successors... this one caught my eye earlier today:
The African cardinal tipped to succeed the Pope
Friday, 01 April , 2005, 19:10
Lagos: The fourth-ranking cardinal in the Vatican and the African with the best chance of succeeding Pope John Paul II began his stellar church career as a child of poor pagan parents in a mud-brick bungalow in the forests of southern Nigeria.
As the current pope clings to life in a Roman hospital, Cardinal Francis Arinze, the 72-year-old Prefect of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is seen by many as a credible candidate to become the first African to rule the Holy See since the death of Gelasius I in 496 AD.
And if the college of cardinals sitting in the Sistine Chapel does decide that the Holy Spirit has chosen Arinze to lead the Church, the tiny Nigerian farming village of Eziowelle might well become a place of pilgrimage for the world's hundreds of millions of Catholics.
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13707701I'm pretty excited about Arinze. It would be great.
This guy seems impressive too.
I don't think it's ghoulish to discuss this.