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Villanova president shares his visceral reaction to learning his friend was elected as pope
Villanova University president Peter Donohue was eating lunch with a few friends at a restaurant in Chicago on May 8 when he ...
From Villanova to the Vatican: Alma mater is floored it taught the 1st U.S. pope
Robert Prevost, now known as His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, graduated from Villanova with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in ...
How Villanova Feels About Having the New Pope as an Alum
Father Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...
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From Villanova to the Vatican: Alma mater is floored it taught the 1st US pope
Augustinian priests on campus are making rounds on the national TV circuit. “We just all kind of lost it," said Villanova senior Peggy Murray, who met the world leader now known as His Holiness ...
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Villanova president shares his visceral reaction to learning his friend was elected as pope
Villanova University president Peter Donohue ... see white smoke coming from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on the TV. "I asked the manager to turn up the sound because we couldn't hear it ...