This may have been one of the most tumultuous papal conclaves in recent memory, with the cardinals of the Roman Church settling on what appears to be a unifying Pope, Leo XIV.

It is remarkable that Robert Prevost, an American, became Pope. It long had been held that an American could never become Pope.

But Vatican sources, who are impeccable, tell Newsmax he was the man to beat from the minute the conclave began.

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