Africa gives a Vatican bragging rights.
It is a one poignant partial of a Catholic universe that is on a rise, with nearby bomb growth. The doubt is either Africa's eager response to a companion church should be rewarded with a choosing of an African pope.
The thought positively resonated with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a destiny Pope Benedict XVI, in 2004, when he told German TV that "we are prepared for a black pope" and called Africa a "spiritual lung of a world." He pronounced most a same in 2009 when he visited Cameroon and Angola (he went to Benin in 2011).
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