OOOOP, wrong link in above post!
(It's getting late...lol).
I am hoping for this man:
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=13707701
I think the majority of Catholics in the world ie those in third world countries are ready for a third world Pope.
For a real long shot how about Ignace Moussa I Daoud Archbishop of Homs, Syria.
Imagine a Pope from a Moslem country!