American Catholics Launch Crowdfunding Effort to Gift Pope Leo XIV Papal Tiara

March 2, 2026 World News

Photo courtesy of Maltese jeweler Gabriel Farrugia
Amici Vaticani’s design for a papal tiara to gift to Pope Leo XIV. The newly established nonprofit launched a crowdfunding effort to construct a papal tiara that will contain Catholic and American symbolism, with the plan to offer it to the pope as a gift from American Catholics.

A nonprofit hopes to generate enough small donations to construct a papal tiara for Pope Leo XIV as a gift from American Catholics.

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