Pope Francis: Meet the New Leader of the Catholic Church

A look at what Cardinal Bergolio's election means for future of the church.

New clues from the new leader of the 1.2 billion Catholics all over the world, Pope Francis hinted at what kind of pope he will be and where he will take the church and its followers. He began his day by praying privately and we saw this image today, Francis kneeling at the altar praying for 30 minutes and tonight those hints at what his papacy might look like, one of them right here Francis as a cardinal riding the subway in Argentina, ABC's Terry M tonight on where the pope stands on many of the most divided issues facing the Catholic church.

Pope Francis returned to the sistine chapel today to celebrate the first mass of his papacy and offer in a short homily a challenge to the very cardinals who elected him.

I would like for all of us to have courage to build the church, he said.

As night in St Peter turned day in Rome, the surprise of Francis' election turned to intense curiosity about him, today there were some clues, he went to see Mary M basilica this morning, slipped in quietly through a side door to pray to the virgin and then he stopped at the guest house where he had been staying to pick up his own bags and pay his own bill.

He is going to be a simple person, he is not going to speak in grand theological terms, he is going to try to say things simply and do things simply.

That's how he lived in Agentina when he was archbishop of BA taking the bus to work, ministering to the poor and castigating the rich, shunning the trappings of office, * hard for the S soccer club, before the priesthood, he loved chemistry, dancing the tango and a young woman who remembered the proposal he made in a love letter.

It's said that we were going to get married， she remembers， and he draw a house where we would live, but he chose a different path, now as the world comes to know, it turns out on many issues pope Francis is a staunch traditionalist, he compared abortion to a death sentence, called gay marriage to destructive of God's plan, though he has suggested that contraception which the church opposes may be permissible to stop the spread of disease.

He is 76 years old and 55 years ago he had an operation to remove part of one lung and it raised some health concerns but friends say he is strong, doctors tell us that old surgeries shouldn't have any impact, and David Francis also tell us one other thing, he may look like a simple and gentle and meek man, but there is another side to him they say, he is tough and they will need it, David.

Night line anchor Terry R at the much quieter Vatican city tonight, Terry thanks to you and this evening our first glimpse inside the sistine chapel, those cardinals voting in the conclave are rare glimpse from NY cardinal Timothy D who told George what it was like as they near those crucial 77 votes.

Still the moment he got to the number needed- 77 was wonderfully inspirational, i don't think there was a dry eye in the house, what moved me was how the whole nature identity of holly changed when it was transformed in the pope Francis, he was a man that just a couple of hours before we were pouring coffee with and walking through the hall of St Marsha and chatting with and all of a sudden he is a holly Father, he was very serene and he was remarkably in peace and did not seem to be rattled, did not seem to agonize over things, just was a man of resignation.