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 student body was a “fairly homogeneous” pool of white, Catholic kids ... The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame coach arrived at Villanova in 1973, going on to lead the NCAA ...

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

Robert Prevost, now the new pope, probably attended Villanova basketball games in the '70s.

Like many who feel a connection with the new pope, Rabbi Joseph Schultz believes his familiarity with sports can help bring ...