The Villanova University community erupted in celebration after one of its own, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was elected Pope Leo XIV—the first American and first Augustinian friar to lead ...

Prevost (center) shows his love for his university with a V for Villanova. Villanova University. Rev. Robert Hagan, chaplain of Villanova’s men’s basketball and football programs, met Prevost ...

The new pope is a Wildcat through and through. Even while ministering in faraway Peru, Robert Francis Prevost kept up with his alma mater, Villanova University, a Catholic college of approximately ...

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Donohue said the pope is a Villanova basketball fan. And Donohue has taken note that whenever he or the university send out messages, they can check who opens them, and the pope does every time.

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope wasn't far away on campus, studying math two ...