A copy of the doctoral thesis of Fr Robert Prevost — elected this year as Pope Leo XIV — has been discovered in the rare ...

Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head of the Catholic Church. He’s also a class of ‘77 alumnus of Villanova University, which is run by the Order of St. Augustine. When he was elected to the papacy ...

The Rev. Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his doctoral thesis on the way local Augustinian superiors exercise authority ...

At one level, it's going to be really helpful because the name he chose, Leo XIV, is important. He has been very clear about ...

These concerns were resolved after a church in Alexandria ... anybody else's grandkids can continue the legacy of Saint Augustine's University," Quarles said.

Wondering who Pope Leo XIV’s favorite saint is? A Peruvian missionary priest who is a close friend and confidant of the ...

He then quoted the great saint and doctor of the Church ... high school at St. Augustine Seminary, a minor seminary in Michigan; he attended Villanova University, founded by the Augustinians ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s hot-button issues remain unclear, he has signaled continuity with his ...

The partnership threatens 'the university’s Catholic and Vincentian mission' a group of faculty, students and alumni argued in a petition.

Church bells rang out for ... is the nation’s premier Catholic university of the Augustinian order. The order is based on the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo, and characterized by its ...

He holds a bachelor's degree in math from Villanova University ... in 1949. The church converted the estate into St. Augustine Catholic Seminary, a boarding school for boys in grades 9-12.

People outside the church expressed their desire ... Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost joined the Order of St. Augustine in 1977. He attended Villanova University near Philadelphia, where he ...