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

Father Donohue was busy himself on Thursday. He happened to be in Chicago, the new pope’s hometown, for a Villanova alumni ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

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.

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 ...

Several students and faculty who traveled to St. Peter's last fall and were given holy communion by then-Cardinal Prevost.

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

First American pontiff takes Catholic Church helm amid increasing global turmoil - The 69-year-old former cardinal was chosen ...

a Villanova alum now known to the world as Pope Leo XIV and to others locally as a friend. Robert Prevost became the first U.S. pope elected in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church and ...