During a meeting on Wednesday at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV received a hat of his alma mater, Villanova, from the National Italian American Foundation.

Though the pope may be historically known for wearing larger, more triangular hats, Pope Leo XIV, on Wednesday, donned a cap of his alma mater, Villanova, that he received as a gift from the National ...

Prevost also hosted Villanova officials in Rome that year. Donohue said the pope is a Villanova basketball fan. And Donohue has taken note that whenever he or the university send out messages ...

A Pinehurst mother and her son rented an Airbnb that was a 12-minute walk from the Vatican and attended Pope Leo's first ...

News that the global Catholic Church would get its first U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholic students at Princeton and ...

Pope Leo XIV was installed as the head of the Catholic Church after being elected in the papal Conclave on May 8.

Matthew Hatcher/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Alumni ... of ideas as the previous pope,” she said. Leo, then Robert Francis Prevost, graduated from Villanova, in the Philadelphia ...

But news that Prevost, a 1977 Villanova graduate who is now known as Pope Leo XIV, had ascended to the papacy still dominated conversations among students and many of their parents who were on ...

Students and alumni at Villanova - Pope Leo XIV's alma ... Augustinian universities in the U.S. It's where the pope, then known as Robert Prevost, graduated in 1977. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...