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 ...

Villanova University alumnus Cardinal Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, was elected as the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and succeeds Pope Francis.

VILLANOVA — When Villanova University’s president, Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope wasn’t far away on campus, studying math two grades below him.

Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year ...

Goode shares a love of his alma mater with Robert Prevost, who graduated from Villanova University in 1977 with a degree in mathematics. Prevost, who is taking the name Pope Leo XIV, has spent ...

Father Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago restaurant on Thursday when word got out that white smoke was ...

Prevost has maintained his ties with Villanova over the decades. 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 ...

Prevost has maintained his ties with Villanova over the decades. 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 ...

VILLANOVA, Pa. — 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 grades ...

Students from Villanova University met then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as part of a school group in Rome.

Robert Prevost, a.k.a. Pope Leo XIV, shall hence be known as the Delco Pope to Philly. The Villanova graduate is the first American pope.