"I think people will be very impressed with him," he said of the new pope, who graduated from Villanova University in 1977.

"Peter and I talked ... he graduated from Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx and earned a bachelor’s in history from Marist College, now Marist University, in upstate Poughkeepsie in ...

Pope Leo XIV's choice of name signals a commitment to social justice, very much in line with the late Pope Francis' global ...

The Augustinian-affiliated university has pulsed with nonstop celebration, including ‘pope punch’ and ringing bells, since an ...

Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates was elected the first pope from the U.S. in the history ...

"It's not every day you get an opportunity to pay respects to the pope," said Jack Albright, an American student who is in Rome for an exchange program at John Cabot University. "I had a lot of ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

“It was really more shocking because of his appearance yesterday,” said Love, who came to Italy with her husband (a seminary professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University), mother-in ...

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the gaming teenager who had a deep love for Christ in the Eucharist, is about to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Acutis will be canonized during the ...