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

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

Cardinal Robert Prevost's election as pope is giving Knicks fans a boost. He's the first American pontiff and, like Jalen ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost's appointment as Pope Leo XIV drew celebration from U.S. residents on social media, including from ...

Indeed, the first Pope Leo — known as Leo the Great — served 440-461. He is best known as the pope who persuaded Attila the ...

At Sunday Mass, the landmark, Gothic-style church - the focal point of Catholicism in the most populous U.S. city - was ...

President Trump on Thursday congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost after he was elected as the new pope, making him ...

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

“We at the University of Portland are especially heartened to see an American — and a graduate of American Catholic higher ...

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.

Jesus is a Newsweek reporter based in New York ... newsweek.com The Villanova University community erupted in celebration after one of its own, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was elected Pope ...