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

Students were surprised an American — especially a Villanova grad — was chosen as the next pope. Some hope he’ll be their ...

Vista said that American Catholics are no longer excluded from Rome by having the U.S.’s first pope, but are now a complete ...

Student Amelia Weiss was in her dorm with the door open as others nearby watched for updates from the Vatican ... studies at ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Bells rang in St. Peter's Square and the crowd erupted in cheers on the second day of the papal conclave when white smoke ...

Students at Villanova University are thinking about how the new leader of the Catholic Church spent time in the same places ...

whose tenets are central life at Villanova. Student Amelia Weiss was in her dorm with the door open as others nearby watched for updates from the Vatican. "All across the floor, I hear people ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter's basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...