[ELS]

The Vatican also denied that the "Moor’s head" in the heraldic symbol on the Pope’s coat of arms referred to the Crusades. The head is taken from the coat of arms of the Archbishop of Munich ...

Hmmm, I haven't seen anything about his papal coat of arms other than this reference.

[Mike Fieschko]

Hmmm, I haven't seen anything about his papal coat of arms other than this reference.

Gotta read the blogs: on Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, there's a link to the Catholic News Service article Pope drops papal crown from coat of arms, adds miter, pallium. The image from The Pope's Arms... (at Zadok the Roman 'from a card made availible to some of the clergy who assisted at the Installation Mass') is