To: Pokey78
"...the Guardian, for example, has already been touting the Nigerian Francis Arinze as "candidate for first black pope". This would be news to Pope St Victor, an African and pontiff from 189 to 199."Well, to nitpick, being African doesn't make one a black necessarily. I'd be willing to bet that Pope St Victor was not black.
33 posted on
04/04/2005 4:10:06 PM PDT by
Jabba the Nutt
(Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
To: Jabba the Nutt
Also amusing is that The Guardian must not know much about Cardinal Arinze, or they would never have plugged him like this. If anything, he's more conservative than PJP II.
36 posted on
04/04/2005 4:14:56 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Jabba the Nutt
It appears that Pope St. Victor was black..
56 posted on
04/04/2005 9:31:44 PM PDT by
Experiment 6-2-6
(Meega, Nala Kweesta! It appears that SABERTOOTH got himself suspended. Again. ????)
To: Jabba the Nutt
Pope Victor was not the last African Pope. Pope Gelasius was, four centuries later. Apparently, the author was keen to consider that African doesn't equal black, but had reason to contend that Victor, unlike Gelasius, was black.
80 posted on
04/05/2005 8:34:15 AM PDT by
dangus
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