Editing Crozier (section)

==== Papal usage ====
[[File:PapaJCruz Brazil.jpg|thumb|[[Pope John Paul II]] holding the Papal ferula, not a crozier, 5 October 1997]]
[[Pope]]s no longer carry a crozier and instead carry the [[papal ferula]]. In the first centuries of the church, popes did carry a crozier but this practice was phased out and disappeared by the time of [[Pope Innocent III]] in the thirteenth century. In the Middle Ages, much as bishops carried a crozier, popes carried a [[papal cross]] with three bars, one more than the two bars found on croziers carried before archbishops in processions (see [[archiepiscopal cross]]). This too was phased out. [[Pope Paul VI]] introduced the modern papal pastoral staff, the papal ferula, in 1965. He and his successors have carried a few versions of this staff, but never a crozier.