On Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV rode in an open-topped popemobile through St. Peter's Square, where thousands gathered ahead of his inaugural mass, News.Az informs via ABC News.
The Holy Mass for the Beginning of the Pontificate began at 10 a.m. local time in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Attendees at the mass, which marks the official beginning of Leo’s papacy, included Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, along with other political figures and religious dignitaries. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greeted each other and shook hands prior to the mass.
Representatives of the Ecumenical, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Zoroastrian and Jain churches were in attendance, the Vatican's Holy See press office said.
