OBAMA AND MERKEL SPIED ON POPE BENEDICT XVI AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ORDER TO INSTIGATE A 'CATHOLIC SPRING'

In 2013, the National Security Agency (NSA) were alleged to have spied on the Vatican, with the German Foreign Security Agency (BND) also having been accused of the same. In 2013, Italian magazine Panorama made headlines around the world when it claimed that Obama’s NSA had been monitoring phone calls in Italy. As many as 46 million phone calls had been monitored between December 2012 and January 2013, with some of them taking place inside the Vatican. According the Panorama, the calls were grouped together in the following categories ‘leadership intentions, threats to the financial system, foreign policy objectives and human rights’. Panorama also claimed that the residences where Cardinals lived prior to the conclave were likely monitored. They also speculated that the monitoring took place up as far as the conclave which occurred in March 2013. Although some claimed at the time that the conclave itself could have been bugged, Catholic Culture recalls a story where it was virtually impossible to find a phone after Francis’s election to inform Benedict XVI, because of the strict rules on carrying phones inside the Vatican.

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