Now that the first black person has been elected President of the United States, Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory (the first black bishop to serve as President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) thinks it is time for a black Pope. See a related story from Yahoo! News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081106/ts_alt_afp/usvotepope_081106143630
When I first heard about Archbishop Gregory's comments, my first thought was that there must have been black Popes before. Indeed, there have been three - Victor I (he is the guy that required that Easter be on a Sunday), Militiades and Gelasius. However, all three Popes reigned during a time when race was not an issue.
Given the growth of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa (which is a continent, not a country), it becomes increasingly possible that, in the not-too-distant future, a black man could become Pope.
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