Vatican City, May 25, 2011 / 17:05 pm. Pope Benedict XVI did not have a papal tiara until today. At the May 25 General Audience he was presented with one by the Catholics of his native Germany.

The tiara’s glittering past. While Pope Leo XIV, like his recent predecessors, is unlikely to don the papal tiara — a triple-crowned headpiece entrenched in medieval grandeur — it remains ...

But what interests us here is the element above them: the papal tiara, a triple crown worn by the new pontiffs after their election. Twenty-two tiaras are preserved, and probably the most peculiar of ...

With his motu proprio, the Holy Father was only terminologically accommodating what had already been established by facts.The last papal coronation took place in the splendid and luxurious ...

In 1964, Pope Paul VI, known for his reserved personality, retired the triple-tiered tiara. “He considered the papal tiara with all its jewel encrustation as perhaps sending a bad message if the ...

Excitement, shock in Rome as first American pope, Leo XIV, elected 16:17. Pope Leo XVI will be formally installed as pontiff when he holds his inaugural public Mass at St. Peter's Square on May 18 ...

Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural Mass on Sunday. Years ago, it would have included a solemn moment when the pontiff was crowned with an elaborate gold and jewel-encrusted papal tiara.

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The flag of Vatican City, yellow and white with crossed keys under the papal tiara, is incorrect in many emojis, flying outside the United Nations and often even on Vatican buildings.

The Sistine Chapel is ready for the papal conclave. Front-runners such as Parolin and Tagle are losing momentum amid a divided College of Cardinals.

VATICAN CITY — On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church entered the Sistine Chapel for the papal conclave to choose ...