Before He Was Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost Spent Years Posting About Gun Control, Immigration, and War on X, and Nobody Who Vetted Him Bothered to Read It

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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