Pope Leo XIV to hold his first mass as pontiff as Catholics around the world celebrate – live

Pope will hold private mass in the Sistine Chapel at 0900 GMT, during which he will give his first papal homily

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John Prevost, Pope Leo’s brother, has given an interview to the Associated Press in which at one point he realised he had missed several calls from the pontiff. The news agency writes:

He [John] gave the new pope a call back.

Leo told him he wasn’t interested in being part of the interview and after a brief message of congratulations and discussion in which they talked like any two brothers about travel arrangements, they hung up.

He’s not going to be real far left and he’s not going to be real far right … Kind of right down the middle.