Promotional Posters Of Cardinal Turkson May Damage His Chance of Being Pope
Reported by Malcolm Morrow
Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation from being the head of the Catholic church was an announcement that most people of the world did not see coming. This is the first time that a Pope has ever stepped down from the position in the 660 years since it was conceived. The Vatican is in a frenzy trying to find out who will replace Benedict.
Recently, there have been a plethora of posters appearing around Rome in support of bidding Cardinal Turkson of Ghana to be made the new Pope; however, campaigning and promoting oneself for the position of the Pope is shunned. Fortunately though, many believe that Turkson is not responsible for the posters. Authorities are working tirelessly to determine where the posters originated.
George Weigel, an NBC Vatican expert, defended Turkson, saying “You can be absolutely sure that poor Cardinal Turkson, a true innocent, had nothing to do with this”. So was this some type of sabotage against Turkson or someone actually trying to get him some more exposure and make him a more competitive candidate?
How do you believe will react to a Black Pope?
Malcolm Morrow, a Your Black World Network contributor, is a senior, criminal justice major at The University of Southern Miss
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This is a stupid post by an illiterate student being managed by a crazy graduate of Clark Atlanta univ who states that she is the business manager of your black world –who refuses to divulge her business background or qualifications to run this crazy blog which should be disbanded along with the stupid Christian blog which is an asinine venture that does not advance the black community .please disband black blue gog. Offer solutions and not gossip —just saying!
Mnyama B Black: “Does anyone even think this guy has a chance in he! to become pope? NOT!”
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There were 25 Afrikan popes BEFORE the first roman albinoid (caucasoid) pope. Read the book by Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan in his book entitled: African Origins of the Major Western religions, and get the Truth.
Here were three of the Black Afrikan Popes
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According to the Liber Pontificalis, three popes-Pope St Victor I (ca186-198), Pope St Miltiades (311-14), and Pope St Gelasius (492-496)-were Africans. The Liber Pontificalis is composed of a series of biographical entries, which record the dates and important facts for each pope. It is the oldest and most detailed chronicle dating from the Early Church. The Liber Pontificalis is dated from the sixth century. The record of names begins with St Peter. As the work progressed the entries became longer and more detailed. The Liber Pontificalis continued to be written until 1431.1
The African popes in question are said to have come from the North African area that is present-day Algeria, Mauretania, Numidia, and Tunisia. Historians name this area the maghreb. Today it is mostly Muslim. The indigenous people of North Africa are Berbers, brown skinned as among the Tuaregs and Algerians. By the time of Pope Victor I, the Roman aristocracy had large land holdings on the Mediterranean coast. Carthage was the center.2 The language was Latin. The Berbers lived in the rural areas and the larger towns. Carthage was the primacy. Small scattered dioceses in the rural areas. The indigenous population, the Berbers, gradually accepted Christianity, but the details of evangelization are unclear.
Most historians today are of the opinion that Victor was a North African. He was the first Latin-speaking pope. He had to be persuaded to permit the Asian Churches of Syria to continue celebrating Easter on the 14th day of Nisan. Victor had desired to force the Asian churches to accept the Roman method of calculating the celebration of Easter, that is the first full moon on the Sunday after the vernal equinox. Contemporary with Victor I was Tertullian, the North African writer, who reworked Latin for expressing second-century theology. Just after the death of Victor I, St Perpetua and St Felicity underwent their martyrdom in Carthage (Perpetua was from the landowner class; Felicity the slave). The Scillian martyrs, first African martyrs put to death in Carthage just prior to the pontificate of Victor, with St Cyprian, the great bishop and martyr of Carthage martyred in 258 half a century after Victor. As one historian writes, it was “remarkable… that Latin should have won recognition as the language of African Christianity from the outset, while the Roman church was still using Greek.”3 Although martyrdom was the great seal of African Christianity, most historians have concluded that Victor I was not martyred in Rome.
St Miltiades (311-14) is the second pope identified as an African. The Liber Pontificalis names him as born in Africa. More recent scholars consider that Miltiades was probably from an African family in Rome. In fact, Miltiades was pope in Rome at the time of the victorious battle of the Milvian Bridge when Constantine the Great defeated and killed Maxentius. With this victory, Constantine opened the way to the end of persecution of Christians. Miltiades is not recorded as making any intervention in drawing up the Edict of Milan that recognized the freedom of religion for all peoples. When the Donatists in North Africa had recourse against the Catholic Church, Constantine asked Miltiades to listen to their complaints. At this time the opposition in North Africa are called Donatists. They are the poor and the peasants. They make up the opposition to the well-to-do landholders. At present there is much study of the Donatists. These people are Berbers not Romans. Miltiades called a synod of bishops to examine the case. Historians have considered that Miltiades, seemingly an African, was chosen precisely because he had connection with the Church in North Africa.4
More recent historical studies consider that the question of Donatism in North Africa are not only doctrinal but also sociological, economic, and political factors. The schism continued after the death of Miltiades.
Finally, St Gelasius (492-496) is called an African in the Liber Pontificalis. In another document, Gelasius referred to himself as “born a Roman.” It is suggested that he was of African family origin. He is known especially for his strained relationship with the Byzantine emperor Anastasius in Constantinople. Gelasius I unequivocally proclaimed his authority as pope over that of the emperor. The collection of liturgical prayers that bear his name belong to the seventh century.
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Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Ph.D.
Professor, Church History
St Meinrad School of Theology
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Thanks for your scholarly revelations. It makes the characters in the TV series “The Bible” look ridiculous as not one is African.
Our children should not be watching these distorted images.
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