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Villanova students react to alum Robert Prevost being named Pope Leo XIV, meeting him in Rome
We all lost our minds. And we’re still losing our minds,” said Mike Blake, a Villanova University senior who met ...
See Pope Leo XIV’s Villanova college yearbook photo
But in the Villanova Class of 1977 yearbook is a picture of Robert F. Prevost, suited up, with bushy eyebrows, and some very ...
A Shocked Villanova Celebrates One of Its Own in New Pope
The Pennsylvania university best known for its basketball program has a new most famous alumnus in Pope Leo XIV.
The new Pope watches the Knicks (and Villanova)
Jalen Brunson and Pope Leo XIV are both Chicago kids who attended Villanova, so it only makes sense that the new Pope watches ...
How Villanova Feels About Having the New Pope as an Alum
F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...
Ringing bells, a papal flag and memes: How Villanova celebrates an alumnus becoming pope
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.
From Villanova to the Vatican: Alma mater is floored it taught the 1st US pope
Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates ...
Robert Prevost known as the ‘saint of the north’ in Peru for his closeness to poor
Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as ...