When white smoke began pouring from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney Thursday after as few as four ballots, many assumed that meant the sitting Catholic cardinals had selected the consensus frontrunner Pietro Parolin, who had served as Pope Francis’s Secretary of State since 2013, as the new pope. If there’s one thing you have to hand to the assembled leaders of the Catholic Church, it’s this: They do know how to surprise you.  When the curtains of a balcony on St. Peter’s Basillica were drawn an