CAPE COAST, Ghana (Reuters) - A black African pope to succeed Pope Benedict would be "quite some miracle", a leading archbishop from Ghana said, adding that a developing world candidate might have to overcome negative perceptions within the Catholic hierarchy.
"If the Church chooses a Third World person or a black pope it will have to come to terms with itself," Matthias Kobena Nketsiah, archbishop of Cape Coast, told Reuters.
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