inaugural mass, this isn't like a presidential inauguration. he's been pope. this is a mass to invest him with the key symbols of his office. one is the pallium which is the cloth stoll symbolizing the chief shepherd of the church. the gold-plated ring, the fisherman's ring, which symbolizes his authority as the successor of peter, the leader of the catholic church. we're also going to see unveiled, so to speak, the pope's coat of arms. it has the latin letters ihs, when this symbol, meaning the cross, the symbol of the jesuit order from which he comes and a star representing mary, the star of the sea, and a flower representing joseph, mary's husband and the patron of the