Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

While at Villanova, Prevost was an active member of the university’s long-standing pro-life club “Villanovans for Life,” the ...

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.

Pope Leo XIV's election as pope marks a 'super happy day' for Catholics around the world, according to the chair of Catholic ...

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

The bells of St. Thomas of Villanova Church first rang at the sight of white smoke, indicating a pope had been elected. Since ...

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

A lot of my friends are calling it the Villanova Vatican,” said Caroline Pirtle, a Villanova University junior who interned at the Vatican this semester and just returned home to Minneapolis Thursday ...

VILLANOVA, Pa. (WPVI) -- American Cardinal Robert Prevost, now named Pope Leo XIV, has a strong tie to the Philadelphia ...

"It's something that I think is enormously beneficial to our university and something we're immensely proud of." ...

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