Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is a Villanova graduate. He is the first American pope elected in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Villanova remained generally quiet during the large-scale protests that swept through U.S. schools in the 1960s. But in 1974, a political awakening arrived on the Main Line. And the target was the ...

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.