POPE LEO XIV CELEBRATES FIRST MASS AS PONTIFF, A DAY AFTER HIS ELECTION

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the church’s 2,000-year history. The election of cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pontiff overcame the traditional prohibition against a pope from the United States. On Friday, wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as …