The new pope is a Wildcat through and through.
Even while ministering in faraway Peru, Robert Francis Prevost kept up with his alma mater, Villanova University, a Catholic college of approximately 10,000 outside Philadelphia known for its perennially successful men’s basketball team, the Wildcats. He even has an enviable collection of school merch.
Upon hearing the news on Thursday that Prevost — who graduated in 1977 with a B.S. in mathematics and awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree there in 2014 — was elected leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Villanova’s president, Rev. Peter M. Donohue, sent a congratulatory email to the new pontiff.
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Villanova grad Robert Francis Prevost was elected the first American pope. Obtained by NY Post
“I called him ‘Bob.’
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