[Hermann the Cherusker]

I don't approve. Please, please, please don't drop the tiara. It's bad enough there's no more coronation. They'll be dropping it from the papal flag next. The tiara is an historic symbol of long standing and should not be eliminated.

The triple Tiara goes back only to Boniface VIII, with his overreaching attempts to be king of the earth.

Neither Pope St. Gregory VII, nor St. Leo IX never wore one, nor did Popes St. Agatho, Martin I, Gregory the Great, Leo the Great, or Damasus.

What is the big deal? Christ didn't crown St. Peter with a Tiara.

[TradicalRC]

Haven't seen your posts in many moons, good to see you again. What do you think of the Holy Spirit's choice for the new Pope?

[royalcello]

It would do a lot of good for Catholics, and the world in general, to be reminded that the Church is a monarchy, not a democracy.

It would be hard not to see the post-Vatican II popes' renunciation of the tiara and coronation as a reversal of the Church's traditional support of monarchy, which Pope Pius VI had called "the best of all governments." Of all the deplorable changes of the past forty years, after the abandonment of the Latin mass and the sacred music associated with it, this is the one I regret the most.