Report: U.S. tapped cardinals’ phones ahead of conclave

ROME — The National Security Agency (NSA) spied on cardinals as they prepared to select the new pope — perhaps including even Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who emerged from the spring 2013 conclave as Pope Francis, a leading Italian news magazine reported Oct. 30. The news magazine Panorama said the same NSA eavesdropping program that angered leaders in Germany, France, Spain…