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Simbolos Iguales, Detalles Distintos: Gambia Escudo de Armas Papal
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) - El escudo de armas papal ha recibido unos cuantos ajustes mayores para reflejar mas claramente el simbolismo de Maria y San Jose.

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Pope Francis greets people after celebrating Mass at St. Anne's Parish within the Vatican March 17. The new Pope greeted every person leaving the small church and then over to meet people waiting around St. Anne's Gate.

of the fisherman, St. Peter, and the pallium, a woolen band worn around the shoulders to evoke a shepherd carrying a sheep. With members of the College of Cardinals dressed in gold gathered before the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica and brass players sounding a fanfare, the rites began at the tomb of St. Peter. Pope Francis venerated the mortal remains of his predecessor as head of the church and was joined there by the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches. Processing behind the Eastern church leaders and the cardinals, Pope Francis wearing a simple, mostly white chasuble and his black shoes came out into St. Peter's Square while the choir chanted a special litany to Christ the King. French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who had announced Pope Francis' election to the world six days earlier, placed the pallium, which had been worn by Pope Benedict XVI, around the new Pope's neck. The retired Pope did not attend the Mass. "The Good Shepherd charged Peter to feed his lambs and his sheep; today you succeed him as the bishop of this church to which he and the Apostle Paul were fathers in faith," Cardinal Tauran said. Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, presented Pope Francis with the fisherman's ring, a gold-plated silver band featuring St. Peter holding keys, a reminder that Jesus told St. Peter: "I will give you the keys to the kingdom of

Pope Benedict XVI greets Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the Vatican in this Jan. 13, 2007, file photo. Cardinal Bergoglio was elected March 13 the 266th Roman Catholic pontiff and the successor to retired Pope Benedict

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While many Christians acknowledge t role of the bishop of Rome as the one wh over the entire Christian community in lov the papacy has been exercised over the ce one of the key factors in the ongoing d Christians. For the first time since the Great Schism split the main Christian community into West, the ecumenical patriarch attended th tion Mass. Patriarch Bartholomew of Const first among equals of the Eastern Orthodo place of honor near the papal altar. Catholicos Karekin II of Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church, also att Mass along with delegations from 12 oth dox and Oriental Orthodox churches, 10 and Protestant communities, and three int Christian organizations, including the Worl of Churches. After the Lord's prayer, Pope Francis ex sign of peace with Patriarch Bartholomew Catholicos Karekin. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the Jew munity of Rome, and seVeral internation organizations sent representatives to the c as did Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, and Hi munities and organizations. Also present were representatives of 13 ments. led hv the nre^iH^nts nf Italv *nA A