Alb: A long white linen vestment with sleeves, it symbolizes the purity of heart that the priest brings to the altar.

Pope Benedict XVI, the 78-year-old former German Cardinal Josef ... His heraldic shield is topped not by the papal tiara or crown, but by a simple bishop's mitre.

While the tiara is still used as a symbol of the papacy on the coat of arms of the Holy See and of the Vatican City State, it hasn't featured on a pope's personal coat of arms since Pope Benedict ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s ring was solid gold ... While Pope Leo XIV, like his recent predecessors, is unlikely to don the papal tiara — a triple-crowned headpiece entrenched in medieval grandeur ...