No Longer Worn, But Not Prohibited
In 1963, the new pope, Pope Paul VI, chose to be crowned with his own tiara given to him by his former see rather than with the Palatine Tiara. (He also had a shorter rite of papal coronation than had previous popes.) He never wore any other tiara from the collection and in June 1963 formally renounced the wearing of a tiara for his papacy by placing his tiara on the altar of St. Peter's Basilica during the Second Vatican Council. However his own 1975 Apostolic Constitution Romano Pontifici Eligendo still envisaged incoronations for his successors.
In 1978, his immediate successor, Pope John Paul I, chose not be crowned, as did the next three, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. None of them ever wore a tiara. They thus let the custom fall into disuse. They did not prohibit it: it would be meaningless to do so, since any new pope could at any time undo such a prohibition and choose to be crowned (with the Palatine Tiara or any other tiara specially made or already existing) in the same way as Pope John Paul I chose not to be crowned.
Pope John Paul II's 1996 Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis on the election of a pope omitted all mention of a coronation ceremony, speaking merely of "the inauguration of the pontificate".
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