Possible Clues:

• Symbol of something spiritual
• ...ceremony with bag, right, having final word
• Ceremony such as Christian baptism
• They're down your back and meant to sound as if they're in church
• Religious ceremony
• Oscar left US city as penance, perhaps
• A crowd outwardly ecstatic in religious ceremony
• Barker's oath
• In church it's amen to it in the broken carts
• Capital dispensing with old religious ceremony