curia

His words apply not only to the Roman Curia at the Vatican but to the entire Church throughout the world.

But the Vatican Curia was there before he was elected pope, and it will be there long after his ministry ends.

“In the Curia there are holy people, truly holy people,” Francis reportedly told the Latin American delegation.

But he has only been in the job for six months, and his promise of reforming the Curia may just be the tip of the iceberg.

Imagine that the Jesuit Curia in Rome offered a compromise, which the state accepted.

Marius, in order to protect their safety, imprisoned them in a large building, known as the Curia Hostilia.

The tribe was divided into ten curi; at the head of each curia was a curion.

Is fundator erat cuiusdam urbis a seipso denominate, que lingua Anglicana Warwic, id est curia Warmundi, nuncupatur.

Every face, every eye was turned to the Curia, in the evident expectation of something great and strange taking place there.

Unlike the Grecian phratry and the Roman curia it had no official head.