HOUSTON — They’re going to party like it’s 1985 after all. These Villanova Wildcats finished off one of the most improbable and offensively insane NCAA tournament runs, culminating in a 77 ...

CONNECTION HERE TO VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY AND THEREFORE PENNSYLVANIA, RIGHT OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA. CERTAINLY A BIG DAY FOR THE UNIVERSITY HERE AS ONE OF THEIR OWN IS SELECTED AS THE NEW POPE.

Villanova, Pa. — When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope wasn't far away on campus, studying math two grades ...

A general view on Thursday of St. Thomas of Villanova Church on the Villanova University campus in Villanova. VILLANOVA — When Villanova University’s president, the Rev. Peter Donohue ...

A general view of St. Thomas of Villanova Church on the Villanova campus in Villanova, Pennsylvania, on May 8, 2025. (Credit: Matt Slocum/AP.) Listen VILLANOVA, Pennsylvania — When Villanova ...

Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head of the Catholic Church. He’s also a class of ‘77 alumnus of Villanova University, which is run by the Order of St. Augustine. When he was elected to the papacy ...

“What a proud and extraordinary day for Villanova University and the global Church!” Rev. Peter M. Donohue, the president of Villanova University, wrote in a message to the school’s ...

"I think people will be very impressed with him," he said of the new pope, who graduated from Villanova University in 1977. Villanova University president Peter Donohue was eating lunch with a few ...

"It's a super-happy day for all Catholics to have a new pope," Patrick Brennan, chair of Catholic Legal Studies at Villanova University, told Fox News Digital. "I was sitting in the studio when I ...

It was back in October that Francesco Cesareo, former dean of liberal arts at Duquesne University and now a professor at Villanova University, took his students on an intensive history course in ...