Were Princess Charlene, Queen Letizia, Queen Mathilde and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa allowed to wear white at Pope Leo XIV's ...

Leo XIV, the first ever American pope, condemned the exploitation of the poor and called for unity in the church during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square, an event attended by world leaders, ...

the Brief Pope who barely held the position for 33 days until his death, dispensed in 1978 with being crowned with the triregnum tiara that had crowned all of Peter's successors since the Middle Ages.

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.

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

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 one of the most opulent artifacts ...

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 ...

According to ABC News, the ceremony once resembled a coronation, complete with the pope being crowned with a triregnum — a three-tiered tiara — and seated on an ornate papal throne.

But many of them also used symbols of monarchy, such as the triple papal tiara or crown. Pope Paul VI, whose papacy was from 1963-1978, was the last to wear the tiara and to have a coronation ...