While at Villanova, Prevost was an active member of the university’s long-standing pro-life club “Villanovans for Life,” the ...

Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates ...

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.

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

One Villanova professor attributed Leo’s election to what he called the “Trump effect,” while a conservative Catholic ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has a Pennsylvania connection. He graduated from Villanova University.

At midweek, the chaplain of Villanova University's basketball team cheered as one of his former star players led the New York ...

When Villanova University's president ... elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. Fr. John Lydon spent 10 years living with the pope while on a ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

Philadelphia Filipinos had been rooting for Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to be the next pope and are disappointed.

2025 in Villanova, Pa. Credit: AP/Matt Slocum Donohue and the pope were on campus in the mid-1970s at an unsettled time around the end of the Vietnam War, while the Catholic Church had been in a ...

Listen VILLANOVA, Pennsylvania — When Villanova ... the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. Father John Lydon spent 10 years living with the pope while ...