The Next Pope: Another African?

From Africa is a Country Tue Feb 12 2013, 08:00:51

The spiritual Rottweiler, Pope Benedict XVI, is knackered. Just short of eight years into his papacy, the "R" bomb has been dropped on the Holy See; resurrecting a tradition established by Pope Gregory XII in 1415. Citing a deterioration of "strength [in] mind and body," our man Benny will stand down at the end of [...]

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