By Jerome London

Updated 10 minutes ago, August 2, 2026

The conservative operatives who tried to block Robert Prevost from becoming pope missed the most obvious source of all: his own public posts.

A well-funded conservative operation spent months building dossiers to keep a liberal off the papal throne. They found almost nothing on Robert Prevost: no books, one canon law dissertation, and a man who rarely spoke on the hard questions.

His public X account, full of the answers they wanted, sat there the whole time.

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