Why is Timothy Dolan smiling?

[This is a special commentary on the election of the new pope.]

When I was a child I used to naively believe that religion and politics were two different things. Today it’s almost impossible to believe that. While Argentines appear to be happy about one of them being selected as pope to more than a billion Catholics, they should tone down their enthusiasm. In particular, they and Catholics everywhere, as well as those people who left the Church in droves, should be asking: Why is Timothy Dola...