On a normal day, the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s busiest tourist attractions. Yesterday, it was the world’s most secretive polling station. Today, it has returned to its primary function: a place of worship.
Pope Leo XIV presided over the first Mass of his papacy today, CNN reports.
The service was conducted in several languages, including a reading from the First Epistle of St. Peter in Spanish, the language of Peru, where Cardinal Robert Prevost spent a decade before becoming Pope Leo XIV.
At the beginning of the Mass, the choir sang the opening antiphon from Psalm 46 of the Catholic Psalter.