At midweek, the chaplain of Villanova University's basketball team cheered as one of his former star players led the New York Knicks to a come-from-behind National Basketball Association playoff win.

Father Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago restaurant on Thursday when word got out that white smoke was billowing from the Sistine Chapel,

Kevin Hughes, chair of theology and religious studies at Villanova University, discusses Pope Leo XIV’s alma mater celebrating Robert Prevost becoming pontiff.