Petition For Return of the Papal Tiara

[Templar]

Interested parties can go here to sign the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/triregnum/index.html

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Most Holy Father,

We are most grateful to you for your continued untiring dedication in restoring the sacred to the holy liturgy & above all we thank you for your Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum" and the restoration of the Classical Rite. We can only applaud your efforts to restore continuity in the Church. We especially laud your continued effort to restore the use of venerable papal vestments & other traditions thereby reaffirming the dignity of your office as the Vicar of Christ. Many if not most of us were born during or after the Second Vatican Council. Many of us feel robbed of our sacred patrimony as Roman Catholics and are therefore all the more grateful to your holiness for your work for the "hermeneutic of continuity" in holy mother church. Most of us were deeply saddened at the abandonment of the triregnum & papal coronation as provided for by your predecessor his holiness of blessed memory Paul VI in his 1975 Apostolic Constitution "Romano Pontifici Eligendo". This venerable ceremony and crowning with the papal triregnum so full of rich symbolism calling to mind the very kingship of Jesus Christ would be but one more blessed opportunity to pay tribute to our patrimony. We the undersigned faithful humbly beg you Holy Father to restore the venerable tradition of the triregnum to the papal ceremonial. The venerable patriarchs of the Orthodox east do not refrain from their own traditions & insignia of their patriarchal office and authority therefore all the more fitting is it that you holy father the vicar of Christ, the patriarch of all the west, the bishop of Rome should wear that ancient symbol of your office the triregnum. For as Mgr Nabuco states in his "Ius Pontificalium" : "Being exempt from all human authority, [The Apostolic Lord: (The Pope)] is crowned with a Tiara and uses it vested with the Sacred Vestments as a sign of his supreme dignity in temporal as well as in spiritual matters."

Submitted respectfully in the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

[JubilateDeo83]

I'd feel weird telling the Holy Father what to wear...

[Josaphat]

Does anyone really think that Ratzinger wearing a tiara will change anything? Maybe he'll listen to your petition, and wear the tiara on his next visit to the mosque or synagogue. Perhaps he'll take it with him on his visit to America, and wear it when he speaks at the U.N. 

[obscurus]

I am not trying to diminish the good intentions of this petition drive but to a certain degree it is rather superficial. I am more interested in a return to a robust Catholicism, a clear program for the establishment of the Social Kingship of Christ, a clear stance on morality, disciplining of wayward bishops and priests, and a clarification or intense study of V2 which has been the KEY event in the past 100 years within the Church.

I highly doubt the Pope will start wearing the Papal Tiara and I am not necessarily sure that it will be worn even when the Church regains its position as THE voice of clarity in the modern world. Yet that is just my opinion.

[obscurus]

Does anyone really think that Ratzinger wearing a tiara will change anything? Maybe he'll listen to your petition, and wear the tiara on his next visit to the mosque or synagogue. Perhaps he'll take it with him on his visit to America, and wear it when he speaks at the U.N.

Your rhetoric is rather tiring.

[StrictCatholicGirl]

I vote NO.. I do not like the tiara.

- Lisa

[Satori]

What does it look like? I'm picturing a dainty little diamond confection like the one Lady Diana wore as a bride ... surely not. 

[gjwalberg]

Here is Pope Pius XII:



There are more than one tiara, and though I don't think anyone's worn one since Paul VI.  If you live in or around St. Petersburg FL, Cleveland OH or St. Paul MN, you can see Pope Pius VII's tiara (a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte, though it was never designed to be worn) at the Vatican's Art "Antiques Roadshow" this year.
http://www.vaticansplendors.com/

[Tony1752]

Does anyone really think that Ratzinger wearing a tiara will change anything? Maybe he'll listen to your petition, and wear the tiara on his next visit to the mosque or synagogue. Perhaps he'll take it with him on his visit to America, and wear it when he speaks at the U.N.

Your rhetoric is rather tiring.

I SECOND THAT!!!!! 

[Cephas]

What does it look like? I'm picturing a dainty little diamond confection like the one Lady Diana wore as a bride ... surely not.

Pics can be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Tiara

I wonder how it feels to have something weighing 10 lbs being put on one's head.