It was the first time that Leo had returned to the loggia since he first appeared to the world on Thursday evening following his remarkable election as pope.

Leo was picking up the papal tradition of offering a Sunday blessing at noon, ... Pope Paul VI, who closed out the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, ...

Leo was picking up the papal tradition of offering a Sunday blessing at noon, ... Pope Paul VI, who closed out the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, ...

It was the first time that Leo had returned to the loggia since he first appeared to the world on Thursday evening following his remarkable election as pope.

Leo was picking up the papal tradition of offering a Sunday blessing at noon, ... Pope Paul VI, who closed out the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, ...

Leo was picking up the papal tradition of offering a Sunday blessing at noon, ... Pope Paul VI, who closed out the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, ...

It was the first time that Leo had returned to the loggia since he first appeared to the world on Thursday evening following his remarkable election as pope.

It was the first time that Leo had returned to the loggia since he first appeared to the world on Thursday evening following his remarkable election as pope.

Leo was picking up the papal tradition of offering a Sunday blessing at noon, ... Pope Paul VI, who closed out the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, ...