AmericanPapist Comments
I don't like it. I suppose the figure without the legs is supposed to be Jesus, but it just looks kind of creepy. And I don't understand the other figure, which I assume represents us lost souls, being pulled out of a corkscrew.
He had a nicer one when he was installed:
http://www.newliturgicalmovement...munich-
iii.html
Be hard to snag a sheep with it, that's for sure ;)
It looks like a hood ornament.
I like the concept (Christ reaching down to save a soul) but not the awful modern implementation of it. It looks like the equivalent of a wreck-o-vated church. If the choice was between this crozier and the one used during his installation, I would go with the
Hmm... I wonder if he reads Karl Rahner?
odd.
Oh my. I was just reading about Archbishop Marx, though -- he just wrote a book called ... yes ... "Das Kapital" that's supposed to be an argument against the "real" Marx while proposing Catholic social teaching. It sounds good, but I can only find it in German. I looked him up, and the only criticism I found was from a priest whom Marx stripped of his faculties when he gave the Eucharist to Protestants at an ecumenical event. So. He must be good. :o)
It's very - modern.
On the plus side, at least it looks solid, well able to stand up to the stresses involved when the Bishop has to give a belt of the crozier to the erring :-)
Looks like it would hurt to get belted with it! I thought maybe it's supposed to be some kind of icon of Christ and the Church?
The crosier is too 70s. The mitre is too wymynpriests.
The hook of the crosier looks like the jointed leg of a spider. The lower legless person looks like a genie coming out of a bottle. The upper legless figure looks like someone who got on the wrong side of the genie.
If he's gonna bop the erring with it, he should start with the sculptor.
The lady behind the bishop feels the same way I do about it.
Is that perchance an Ulrich Henn piece?
The archbishop of Seattle, Wa was gifted a crosier with similar figures in the crook for his 50th anniversary as a priest.
I can't get past the miter.
To me it seems delighful. I should in fairness add that my taste in croziers is reputedly deplorable.
A chrome nightmare.
Looks like some sort of office piece. Or a nice addition to a fancy business pen top.
Yeah and the miter is pretty darn ugly too...
I mean if he couldn't afford anything else then I wouldn't care...but I have a sneaking suspicion that he willingly chose to wear the miter at least.
He's German; what do you want? I'd consider myself lucky that he's wearing a Roman collar.
~cmpt
First thought: "yiuck"
The symbolism of the Crosier is lost... the crook needs to be open and hook shaped.
I vaguely recall that such a design symbolizes the limited authority of the prelate over his jurisdiction.
I dunno exactly *what* it's supposed to be; but to me, it looks like the angel delivering the message of Christ's birth to Mary...
it does look like something from ulrich henn. the bug-eyed, tall-nosed faces look like the figures decorating seattle's st james cathedral.
Ok, so he's symbolically sayin he has no desire to draw his flock closer.
What's the pointy end look like?
The mitre looks like something Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Shori would don.
what is a crosier?
I might have commented, but lately comments about things of this nature have drawn the ire of some.
In a diocese of breathtaking baroque churches and cloisters, this is the best they could come up with? The crozier is just plain ugly, and the mitre looks as though his grandmother may have made it...
Dreadful.
Why does everything ecclesiastical (miters and croziers) have to look so UGLY?
His Excellency looks like Orson Wells (spelling?) before he got fat....
What RWS said.
The mitre makes me think the Bishop's Grandma sat down and lovingly sewed it with love in each stitch...even if this was not at all necessary. But what man is going to break Grandma's heart after all her hard work? ^_^
The crozier, well, I keep thinking the girl is saying to the smaller figure,"It's okay to jump down, I'll catch you."
Presbyterians don't have to worry about things like this, oh well.
Was is das?
I immediately though of the movie "Aliens" when I saw it.
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