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Robert Prevost, now known as His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, graduated from Villanova with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in ...

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

Prevost, the 267th leader of the church and the first American pope, is now Leo XIV. But back when he was skinny undergrad at Nova, he was just Robert. The Chicago native was in what the church calls ...

No, not the real pope. A fan decided to dress up like Pope Leo, who it turns out is a White Sox fan and NOT a Cubs die-hard.

It's not a new or unique thing for a pope to be a sports fan. Pope Francis was a supporter of San Lorenzo, one of the oldest ...

Here is the latest as Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope adds players from the transfer portal, loses others to exhausted ...

After Thursday’s Conclave in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, the world learned that the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, formerly ...

Jalen Brunson and Pope Leo XIV are both Chicago kids who attended Villanova, so it only makes sense that the new Pope watches ...

Father Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...