Pope Francis has delivered the Angelus prayer and blessing before a crowd of many thousands gathered in St Peter's Square in Rome.
The Pope also delivered off-the-cuff remarks, about God's power to forgive, instead of reading a written speech.
It was the Pope's second official appearance before the general public since he was elected on Wednesday.
Earlier, he celebrated his first Sunday mass as pontiff in the Vatican's small and simple parish church.
Before he entered the church, chosen instead of St Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis greeted well-wishers who had lined up outside a nearby Vatican gate shouting "Francesco" - his name in Italian.
Pope Francis's first few days in office have given clear indications of his teaching style as distinct to that of his predecessor, Benedict XVI.
The new Pope is a story-teller, and prefers the informal and the spontaneous to the scripted lecture. Rather than littering his sermons with theological references, he gives anecdotes. During his first public appearance at Sunday's Angelus, he told of a conversation with a woman about forgiveness and mercy.
The crowd - filling St Peter's Square and spilling down the Via della Conciliazione towards the Tiber - was testimony to the bishop of Rome's popularity in his new home town. The people's fondness for him was evident as he took an impromptu walk-about near the Vatican walls after Mass on Sunday morning - pressing the flesh with the locals like a parish priest.
The only people who were not impressed were the scowling security guards trying to keep their man out of harm's way.
The former Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was the surprise choice of cardinals meeting in Rome to pick the successor to the retiring Benedict XVI.
But correspondents say he has been quick to stamp his own style on the papacy.
Speaking on Saturday, Pope Francis emphasised that he wanted "a poor Church, for the poor".
At the end of the Sunday Mass, he waited outside the church and greeted people as they left, like a parish priest, asking many of them to, "pray for me".
Later, just a few minutes after delivering the Angelus, Pope Francis sent his first Tweet as pontiff, writing: "Dear friends, I thank you from my heart and I ask you to continue to pray for me. Pope Francis."
The new Pope's tone is very different to that of his predecessor, the BBC's Michael Hirst, in Rome, says.
His style is pastoral, he teaches by anecdote and speaks off the cuff with ease, in contrast to the theological sermonising of Pope Benedict, our correspondent says.
Benedict - now Pope emeritus Benedict - became the first pontiff in 600 years to abdicate last month when he said his age, 85, and health meant he could no longer continue in the job.
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