WATCH: Pope Leo XIV addresses St. Peter’s Square for the first time

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In his first words, Pope Leo XIV, history's first American pope Robert Prevost, said "Peace be with you."

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From the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, he recalled that he was an Augustinian priest, but a Christian above all, and a bishop, "so we can all walk together."

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He spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish, recalling his many years spent as a missionary and then archbishop of Chiclayo, Peru.


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