The Vatican released the Bishop of Rome's official coat of arms on Saturday. It depicts an upper portion marked with a fleur-de-lis and a lower half decorated with a burning heart, pierced by an ...

Vatican City, May 4, 2013 / 05:06 am. The cardinal who designed Pope Benedict XVI's coat of arms says he needs a new one now that he is no longer the pontiff.

As I looked at the new coat of arms it brought back vivid memories of Oct. 22, 1978, in St. Peter’s Square, when I heard Pope John Paul II, in his homily marking the inauguration of his Petrine ...

Pope Leo XIV's coat of arms with his episcopal motto, "In Illo uno unum," literally "In the One (Christ), we are one," is seen in an image published by the Vatican Secretariat of State May 10, 2025.