2013 papal conclave In October 2013, the Italian weekly magazine "Panorama" reported that the US National Security Agency had targeted cardinals in the conclave for surveillance, including Cardinal Bergoglio. An NSA spokesperson denied this. 2013 papal conclave The papal conclave of 2013 was convened to elect a pope to succeed Pope Benedict XVI following his resignation on 28 February 2013. After the 115 participating cardinal-electors gathered, they set 12 March 2013 as the beginning of the conclave. On the fifth ballot, the conclave elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, Archbishop of Buenos Aires. He took the pontifical name of "Francis". On 11 February
Jorge Fondebrider Ulster cycle, a collection of Irish traditional short stories, a book on Anglo-Scottish ballads and "Peter Street & otros poemas" (2008), by the Irish poet Peter Sirr. In 2009 he co-founded with Julia Benseñor the Club de Traductores Literarios de Buenos Aires (http://clubdetraductoresliterariosdebaires.blogspot.com/). Jorge Fondebrider Jorge Fondebrider (Buenos Aires, 1956) is an Argentinian poet, critic and translator. His published poetry books are "Elegías" (1983), "Imperio de la Luna" (1987), "Standards" (1993), "Los últimos tres años" (2006) and "La extraña trayectoria de la luz. Poemas reunidos 1983-2013" (2016). Also he was translated into English ("The Spaces Between", an anthology translated by