Resolves Yes, if at least one of the next 10 official popes is black according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people.
Resolves N/A, if there is significant disagreement about the blackness of a pope or who the pope is, less than 10 popes will exist, etc.
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3.00The Catholic church claims Simon Peter as the first pope, starting at 33 CE, and they list 266 title holders in those 1,991 years. So the average length of a papacy is just under 7.5 years. There have been only twelve since Pius IX in 1846, for an average of 14.8 years. After Francis there might be only like 6 popes, even 5, before 2100.
I suggest you move the close date well past 2100 - at the very least to 2200. Otherwise, this is as much a market on "will there be unusually short papacies for the rest of the century" as on whether any of the next 10 will be Black.
I agree that if the papacy ceases to exist this should N/A, I'm saying it'd be a bummer if it still exists normally but we're still like 6 popes from Francis.
