We can offer our own form of papal indulgence for Pope Leo's baseball inclinations. Under church teaching, this is a personal ...

Were Princess Charlene, Queen Letizia, Queen Mathilde and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa allowed to wear white at Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass? All about the royal rule!

And a few decades later, with Pope John XXII or Urban V, the third crown was added. The ensemble, topped with a small cross on a sphere or semisphere, would, as mentioned, last until 1963.

Another tiara, worn by Pope Julius II in 1503, was valued at 200,000 ducats (each ducat containing 3.5 grams of pure gold). These tiaras, now museum pieces, ...

His predecessor, Pope Paul VI, was the last pope to be crowned or to use a papal tiara. The papal inauguration now involves the formal bestowal of the pallium, a white woolen band adorned with ...

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.