Who will succeed Cardinal Dolan — and when?

Metropolitan appointments in the U.S. have begun to pick up again, but New York may still have a while to wait

After a standstill during the long illness of Pope Francis this Lent, metropolitan episcopal appointments in the U.S. have begun to pick up again, with new archbishops being appointed in Omaha and Kansas City in the last two weeks.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. Image credit: Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty, via YouTube.

But even …