Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London.

I'm James Menendez. And we're going to begin in Rome because this time on the programme yesterday,

Robert Prevost was locked away in the Sistine Chapel helping to choose a successor to Pope Francis.

Well, that successor turned out to be him,

and today he was once again surrounded by the chapel's magnificent Renaissance frescoes,

but this time celebrating his first Mass as Pope Leo the 14th. All the cardinals who had chosen him and those who hadn't took part in the service.

This is what he had to say to them in his homily.

Through the ministry of Peter, you have called me to carry that cross and to be blessed

with that mission.

And I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me as we continue as a church,

as a community of friends of Jesus as believers, to announce the good news,

to announce the gospel. Pueblood then continued in Italian, telling his audience that the church

could help illuminate the dark nights of this world. His election certainly brightened the day of his

family. Here are his two older brothers

John and Louis talking about how they found out about the news. I was reading a book and I got a text

that said there's white smoke. So I went down and turned the TV on. No one knew at that point

who the Pope was, but there was white smoke. So we knew. So I was watching. I called my niece

just to make sure she knew, and we heard the name, and she screamed, and I said, oh, my gosh,

here we go. It was like, oh my God, it's Rob. It's never going to be the same. What are we going to do?

Yes, it's Rob. Yeah, yeah. Among those gathering once again today in St. Peter Square in Rome is my colleague Mark Lohen,

who's seen this whole process through from the beginning, and he's been talking to people there today.

Hello, where are you from?

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