

Pope Leo XIV will hold a private audience with the Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams and thousands of American fans ahead of a college basketball season opener in Rome, an event that honors the first American pope.

Pope Leo XIV will hold a private audience with the Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams and thousands of American fans ahead of a college basketball season opener in Rome, an event that honors the first American pope.
Thousands of fans flying to Rome to watch a basketball game and a papal audience, and nobody has asked whose bill that is. Sell the tickets, Vatican, and stop calling it a blessing.