The Pennsylvania university best known for its basketball program has a new most famous alumnus in Pope Leo XIV.

Father Donohue was busy himself on Thursday. He happened to be in Chicago, the new pope’s hometown, for a Villanova alumni ...

Galetto, Prevost’s former classmate turned fellow priest, said Prevost’s years saw the beginning of Rollie Massimino’s reign.

As the campus winds down for the semester, bells rang and memes were created for 1977 graduate Robert Prevost, who's now Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is a Villanova graduate. He is the first American pope elected in the 2,000-year ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first U.S. pope, selected Thursday by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome. The new pontiff ...

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

Evening mass in the campus's iconic St. Thomas of Villanova Church became a celebration ... "Now our most notable alumni is ...

Before he was pope, he was a math major at a Catholic liberal arts university in Pennsylvania. Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head ...

Robert Prevost, now known as His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, graduated from Villanova with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in ...

VILLANOVA, Pa. (WPVI) -- Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost, has a strong tie to the Philadelphia region ...

Pope Leo XIV's election as pope marks a 'super happy day' for Catholics around the world, according to the chair of Catholic ...