Pope names new cardinals, but not city's Dolan

Pope Benedict installed 24 new cardinals Saturday, including two from the United States - but New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan wasn't one of them.

But it's not a slight against the popular priest, church experts assure - it's simple math.

The Vatican doesn't want two cardinals from the same city voting on the next Pope, and Dolan's predecessor, Edward Cardinal Egan, remains a conclave member until he turns 80 in 2012, when he becomes ineligible to vote for a Pope.

"This is not Benedict to New York: Drop Dead. It's nothing other than math," said Christopher Bellitto, a church historian at Kean University in Union, N.J.