nigeria. that seems brave for them to go off and do that. but who knows? you know, the african cardinal from ghana and nigeria are wonderful, but the nigerian has only recently made cardinal. so most of the college don t know him. cardinal turkson from ghana is well known to them, he works in the vatican, known as a great theologian. he would be the more likely african candidate. but i don t know how you ignore success. when you look at church in africa and south america, you see the bomb booming vocations and the amount ofath lick who is live there and i don t know how you ignore that block. eric: do you give us insight? do they discuss this and talk about reaching out and this type of thing, like a marketing survey? how do they do this? they have discussions before the conclave. we will talk about the needs and the problems of the church and what kind of cabinets.
italian. but cardinal sandri, argentinian, but he is from italian parents, as you point out so that could alter this toward that south america area. well, eric, as you have spoken about before, the truth is that the church is booming in south america and africa. so we have to take seriously that a candidate from either of those continents would be well received by the larger church. but the votes are in italy and most of europe. for whatever reason, pope benedict strongly filled the college of cardinals with europeans. i am not sure what the reason for that is, but that s the reality. so my hope would be that if the argentin i didn t know is considered is that he would be supported by the ital yarngs he is family, he is italian. but the europeans dominate in the number of votes in the election. eric: do you think the european it s you have two candidates from ghana and