{"id":1723,"date":"2026-06-28T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:42:55","slug":"no-pope-leo-xiv-wasnt-at-a-70s-villanova-university-fraternity-party-in-this-viral-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"No, Pope Leo XIV wasn\u2019t at a \u201970s Villanova University fraternity party in this viral photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Did Pope Leo XIV actually go to a Villanova University fraternity party? <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s what one user on X purported when he posted an aged photo of the leader of the Catholic Church standing with a group of young men \u2014 one wearing a Villanova T-shirt and holding a small dog \u2014 in front of a brick bungalow. \u201cThe future Pope Leo XIV at a Villanova frat party in 1976,\u201d the caption read. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1721\">Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following U.S. strikes and threatens to halt talks<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The tweet had 1.4 million views and more than 15,000 likes as of Sunday.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But internet sleuths were suspicious: <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNot one of them is holding even a beer. That\u2019s one tame frat party,\u201d one of nearly 150 comments read.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t this look more like a step ranch in\/near Chicago than anything on the Main Line?\u201d another user smartly deduced. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The future Pope Leo XIV at a Villanova frat party in 1976. pic.twitter.com\/AsB0orppfP<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) June 27, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The photo was actually taken at a fellow Wildcat\u2019s house on the South Side of Chicago, where the pontiff is from, according to a classmate who has a copy. The classmate, who declined to be named for privacy reasons, assured The Inquirer it was not a frat party and dated the photo to the mid-\u201970s. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1719\">Philly\u2019s Jaron Ennis knocked out Xander Zayas to become junior middleweight champ and take career to \u2018next level\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Pope Leo graduated from Villanova in 1977. He\u2019s the first U.S.-born pope, which presumably could also mean he\u2019s the first to brush up against Greek life, but Villanova does not have fraternity and sorority housing. The Holy See, the Vatican\u2019s governing body, did not immediately respond to an email seeking more information about the photo. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Still, people were intrigued by the idea of the Pope at a party: <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to me that the pope has been to a frat party even if it was a daytime frat party of eight,\u201d one user wrote. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Another said, \u201cLearning your frat bro is now the pope. That\u2019s like something from the epilogue of Animal House.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1717\">A federal judge tossed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking Pennsylvania voters\u2019 private information<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classmate of the first U.S.-born pope said the photo was taken at a fellow Wildcat&#8217;s house in Chicago and assured The Inquirer it was not a fraternity party. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No, Pope Leo XIV wasn\u2019t at a \u201970s Villanova University fraternity party in this viral photo - 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