Pope Leo XIV met Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams at the Vatican ahead of their season-opening game in Rome.
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Pope Leo XIV met Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams at the Vatican ahead of their season-opening game in Rome.

Pope Leo XIV greeted players, coaches and fans from Villanova and Notre Dame in the Vatican audience hall on Saturday. The two Catholic universities' men's and women's teams play a doubleheader Sunday at Rome's Palazzo dello Sport in the season opener, an event dubbed the Eternal City Tip-Off. Leo, born Robert Prevost and a 1977 Villanova graduate, joked that the pope is neutral in sports but "Prevost has another opinion."

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Washington Times
Pope Leo tells Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams he is neutral. Prevost has other ideas
detailed color scene with spiritual theme · positive
CNN
Pope Leo welcomes stars of US college basketball to the Vatican
brief video-led news item · neutral
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Both outlets carry the same event and the same "Prevost has another opinion" wink; one builds a full scene around sport as a path to saintliness, the other compresses it into a short video-led brief.
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CNNCNNLEFT9h ago

“Pope Leo welcomes stars of US college basketball to the Vatican”

WTWashington TimesRIGHT2h ago

“Pope Leo tells Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams he is neutral. Prevost has other ideas”

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Leo underwent lung cancer surgery on Oct. 13 and is still recovering.
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Event #20741 · analyzed at 2026-10-31T15:37 UTC · last updated 1h ago