Pope is a graduate of villanova where church calls do not ring

In the town of Villanova University, students watched the rise of white smoke from Sistine Chapel in hours on Thursday and were amazed when a familiar name.

“The moment we hear ‘Operation,’ Everyone began to cheer,” he said, an old Isabella quate that ended next week.

The former student of the university was the new Pope, Robert Francis Prevost.

Church calls shaved with hours, professors on campus. Congratulatory messages, Villanova president celebrated its new most popular graduates as a university.

The Philadelphia is about 10,000 licenses and graduate students in the suburbs and graduate students, Augustinyan’s country’s Catholic University. The order is based on the Hippo’s Holy Augustine trainings and is characterized by dedication to society. His ethos is the truth, charity and unity.

Robert Prevost will lead the order of August a day – and as the whole Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV, as Thursdays.

However, in the 1970s, he was just another license that browsed in the Gothic campus. In 1977 he studied math and philosophy graduating with a degree of mathematics.

He kept a long connection to the university returning to the campus on his occasion in Rome. In 2014, he received Honorary Honor Hamanities Doctor. Even Villanova is a basketball fan.

“He has always been a very sad villanova alumu,” said the President of the university, Rev, Peter M. Donohue, a telephone conversation, said that the former cardinal is the beginning of the former cardinal.

Father Donohue was busy on Thursday. The new Pope’s homeland, Villanova became the new Pope’s homeland for graduates. After the announcement of the news, the President of the Rival Catholic University, including congratulations and emails, came to a note from Notre Dame.

He said Pope Leo XIV, the pattern as a cardinal, the Pope will bring a modest, simple approach. Although the Cardinal Prevost lived in the Vatican city, he would go for prayers and food in many days in many days. “Society was very important to him,” he said.

In Villanova on Thursday, many people created a kind of contact with the new Pope. Some friends of Ms. Quatela went to Rome and spent photos from dinner with him. “They are, ‘I met the Pope,’ he said.

Anna Moreland, a human professor, once he had dinner with him at Chicago University. He hosted a department meeting in a restaurant on Thursday. They ordered a champagne for the table.

On Thursday evening, a small church to place a larger crowd than the expected of a small church on campus was transferred to the Holy Thomas.

“It’s electricity,” he said. “The church was full and people really singed.”

“How cool is”, “To pray in the pope’s house in the pope’s house?”

Pickle and ChristiancyVillanova, PA, contributed report.