{"id":80959,"date":"2026-03-01T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80959"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:53:08","slug":"cardinal-found-with-phone-during-secret-conclave-to-elect-pope-leo-book-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cardinal-found-with-phone-during-secret-conclave-to-elect-pope-leo-book-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Found With Phone During Secret Conclave To Elect Pope Leo, Book Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (caution:tabloid)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0secret conclave\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/08\/world-news\/american-born-cardinal-robert-prevost-elected-pope\/\">that elected\u00a0Pope Leo<\/a>\u00a0head of the Catholic Church last May was interrupted when one of the 133 cardinals involved was found carrying a cellphone, a massive security breach, a book released on Sunday revealed.<\/p>\n<p>As the clerics were preparing to take their first vote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/08\/world-news\/vatican-gives-unprecedented-behind-the-scenes-look-at-moments-after-pope-leo-xiv-accepted-papacy\/\">inside the Vatican\u2019s\u00a0Sistine Chapel,<\/a> which was fitted with\u00a0jamming equipment\u00a0to prevent outside communications, security officials picked up the signal of an active mobile connection.\u00a0The cardinals stared at each other incredulously, then one of the older clerics discovered he had a phone in his pocket and handed it over, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/09\/world-news\/pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-first-mass-with-cardinals-inside-sistine-chapel-of-the-vatican\/\">\u201cThe Election of Pope Leo XIV,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a new book by two long-time Vatican correspondents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772362388\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Cardinal Found With Phone During Secret Conclave To Elect Pope Leo, Book Says\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (caution:tabloid): The\u00a0secret conclave\u00a0that elected\u00a0Pope Leo\u00a0head of the Catholic Church last May was interrupted when one of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}