The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

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

Galetto, Prevost’s former classmate turned fellow priest, said Prevost’s years saw the beginning of Rollie Massimino’s reign.

On Thursday, church bells rang out for hours in celebration at the Augustinian school near Philadelphia after the 1977 ...

The Augustinian-affiliated university has pulsed with nonstop celebration, including ‘pope punch’ and ringing bells, since an ...

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 ...

Philadelphia Filipinos had been rooting for Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to be the next pope and are disappointed.

Robert Francis Prevost, a Villanova University graduate and a Chicago native, was chosen as the first American pope in ...

Pope Leo XIV is certainly a very busy man. The newly named leader of the Roman Catholic Church, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, must be lined up with things to accomplish in these early days of his ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Massimo Faggioli, professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University — the new Pope's alma mater — about the direction the Catholic Church will likely ...

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