Pope Leo XIV on Friday celebrated mass in the Sistine Chapel as Italian media saluted the first American pope and called Paolo Sorrentino prophetic.

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his life outside the United States.

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope from the United States in the Church's history.