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Laura Gozzi from BBC News reports the Pope is met by a jubilant group of staff and former colleagues, all eager to shake his hand and congratulate him. A young girl handed the Pope a Bible to bless and sign. “Of course, though I have to try out my new signature,” Pope Leo said with a smile. “The old one is of no use anymore.” The Pope had only stopped being Robert Francis Prevost a few hours before, when he was elected pope. As he took on the name Leo XIV, a new life began for the 69-year-old Chicago-born cardinal.
Pope Leo is due to hold an audience with the media at the Vatican on Monday, and he will celebrate a solemn inaugural mass in St Peter’s Square on 18 May.
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