Pope Leo receiving teams and fans from US college basketball before their games in Rome
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is set to hold a private audience on Saturday with basketball teams from his alma mater, Villanova, and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame, plus thousands of traveling American fans in town for the season opener.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is set to hold a private audience on Saturday with basketball teams from his alma mater, Villanova, and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame, plus thousands of traveling American fans in town for the season opener.
With the basketball teams of two big Catholic universities planning to face off in Rome this week — and one of them being the Pope’s own alma mater — many were expecting that we’d see a man in white amidst the crowds of basketball fans.
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