Pope Francis begins his first day at the helm of the Catholic Church

Pope Francis

A man of abounding firsts, Pope Francis will absorb allotment of his aboriginal abounding day adulatory Mass with the cardinals who adopted him.

When Jorge Bergoglio stepped assimilate the balustrade at the Vatican on Wednesday black to acknowledge himself as the new baton of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he fabricated history as the aboriginal non-European pope of the avant-garde era, the aboriginal from Latin America, the aboriginal Jesuit and the aboriginal to accept the name Francis.

His next accessible actualization will acceptable be Sunday.

The new abbey will "very probably" say Mass at St. Peter's and again bear the acceptable Angelus blessing, said Vatican agent Father Federico Lombardi.

But it will not be until Tuesday that Francis will be formally installed as pope.

World reacts
Word of the acclamation of Pope Francis, who was not advised a beloved a part of analysts, bound advance about the globe, with anybody from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to U.S. President Barack Obama alms congratulations.

"As the aboriginal pope from the Americas, his alternative aswell speaks to the backbone and animation of a arena that is added abstraction our world, and alongside millions of Hispanic Americans, those of us in the United States allotment the joy of this celebrated day," Obama said.

Ban said the new pope shares accepted goals with the United Nations, from the advance of accord to amusing justice.

"We aswell allotment the confidence that we can alone boldness the commutual challenges of today's apple through dialogue," he said.

Nowhere was the acknowledgment to his alternative as pope added hasty than in Latin America.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, abbey emeritus of Washington, greeted the alternative with "extraordinary joy."

"I accept been acquisitive that we would move into the Southern Hemisphere and abnormally I anticipate abounding of us had hoped ... we would accept a pope who would appear from Latin America," he said.

"One-half of the Catholics in the apple are from Latin America, so this is a way the cardinals accept actual affably accustomed that."

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