Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates was elected the first pope from the U.S. in the history of the Catholic ...

(AP) — 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 below him.

(AP) — 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.

Internet memes turned the pope’s Roman numeral V ... a person very devoted to his faith,” Lydon said. Kevin Hughes, a theology and religious studies professor at Villanova, said Thursday ...

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