Pope Leo XIV has delivered his first Mass as leader of the Catholic Church in the Sistine Chapel. This come a day after he was elected by the papal conclave. Robert Prevost, from Chicago, is the first pope from the United States and also holds Peruvian citizenship. After the mass, the pope is then expected to have a lunch with the cardinals who elected him from their number yesterday.WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE
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00:00pope pope leo the 14th appearing on the balcony and i think for many people it was a surprise
00:04most people thought that he was too young being 69 that he was relatively made recently made a
00:11cardinal so only made a cardinal in 2023 and finally that he was american we thought there
00:16would never be an american pope but now that he has been elected it makes total sense you know
00:21he would be known across the world by bishops because he was the head of the department of the
00:25vatican selecting bishops and is considered you know good humored intelligent has a global experience
00:31he's really not just an american pope but he's a pope of the americas because he's a naturalized
00:36peruvian citizen you know having been a missionary in 20 for over a third of his life in peru so this
00:42is a great day of rejoicing so we're all of us around the world are praying and giving thanks
00:46to god for the election of of pope leo do you think that the picture donald trump set out there of him
00:51being the pope had any sway as to now we have an american pope remember the one where he he dressed
00:56himself up as a pope and i think he dropped it on his socials
01:00well um one of the things is that people said about prevost is that if he was going to be elected
01:07only because he's the least american of americans so actually there's a bit of controversy at the
01:12moment because one of the last things he tweeted um from his ex account was actually a kind of
01:17criticism of jd um vance and some of the policies so it's not him doing it himself but retweeting
01:22so he there will be tensions i imagine in the future with regards to the pope who is going to
01:28be continuing you know with this great strain of social justice the care for the poor for migrants
01:33for the dispossessed and really he was saying in his very first you know message from the balcony
01:38i'm you know peace be with you he wants to be a peace builder bridge builder so i think there will
01:44be you know so it's a great rejoicing and i'm glad that the american president is happy that it's
01:48american but it's it's it's not going to be sailing i imagine yeah there's um there's a good
01:54profile of uh pope leo in the daily mail today the headline reads tennis playing cardinal who fired
02:00volleys at trump on social media he mentioned one there he replied to jd vance or at least retweeted
02:05jd vance saying that the vice president was wrong jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others
02:11and he separately retweeted a post that said donald trump was as president uh illicitly deporting
02:19u.s residents so definitely not afraid to to voice his mind just explain for me brendan why
02:25for non-catholics watching and listening to you now why it was so emotional for you
02:29seeing him uh pope leo step out yesterday on the balcony does the the church is a family and so our
02:37family we our father our holy father the spiritual father had died so there's this kind of mourning
02:42and then there's we're kind of in limbo there's a kind of liminal space we're all sitting in
02:47you know nervous because you know this the man who was elected pope was going to affect my whole life
02:53so particularly as one who is really engaged catholic and everything that he's going to say
02:57has a huge impact so we are delighted that the church has a holy father again we need that leadership
03:03and we you know we give him our our fealty our prayers all of our support and look forward to
03:09the ways in which he's going to lead the church so there's just kind of emotion the same way that
03:12like if you had lost your you know a loved one and they were found again somehow so there's that level
03:17of depth of emotion yeah that's one wonderful moment really a lot of it does seem that a lot more
03:24younger people are turning to the church now uh we're reading the the you know the sort of people
03:30the numbers for the catholic church in particular are rising have you heard that brendan yeah i have
03:36wonderful time to to be a christian um so i'm a trustee of the bible society which produced this
03:42report called a quiet revival so the idea is that we've been used to this trend of secularization
03:47right the numbers are always going down but these predictions you know never predict that people
03:52might get sick of secularity that they might want something more that our lives are made for purpose
03:57and so this report was suggesting is the wave coming back in of religious belief we see the
04:02numbers in general rise from eight percent to twelve percent but highest among gen z so the future looks
04:08like you know we're not talking a huge onset revival but quietly that the the church is growing it's not
04:14inevitable decline and so i for one am very excited about how pope leo is going to you know be a be part
04:20of that to continue to build this momentum yeah great brendan alejandro thank you very much