New pope gives Villanova University another reason to cheer By Reuters

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New pope gives Villanova University another reason to cheer By Reuters

By Karen FreifeldVILLANOVA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - 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.The next day, Father Robert Hagan was celebrating another Villanova graduate he knows - the pope.\"We’re just cheering another one of our teammates, you know?\" Hagan said on Friday as students packed up for the semester.Leo XIV was known as Robert Prevost when he was a math major at the Catholic university in the 1970s, walking its bright green lawns and studying and praying in ..