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 also hosted Villanova officials in Rome that year. Donohue said the pope is a Villanova basketball fan.

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 alums in NC excited as one of their own, Robert Prevost, named pope: 'Immensely proud' By Michael Perchick, via Friday, May 9, 2025 ...

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

Villanova's storied men's college basketball program has won national championships three times. Celebrating a pope in their ranks is unprecedented.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Robert Prevost, the first American elected Pope, got a degree in mathematics from Villanova University ...

A new pope was elected on Thursday, and sports fans believe the New York Knicks should be excited by the development. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope and first ...