Possible Clues:

• Bishop's staff
• Episcopal staff from down under featured in Herald
• A bishop's staff of office
• What the bishop and I have in common
• How I became associated with the long clues here
• There's a crook in The Irish Times
• That crook is as religious as I am
• Brian who wrote 'The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire'
• For me there's no Christmas cracker, but a Christian's one
• The biggest crook in the Church - that's me