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Roman Curia

noun

  1. the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
  2. the court of the papal see.


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

The group will not in any way interfere in the normal functions of the Roman Curia.

The commission was tasked with finding out who, if anyone, inside the Roman Curia might have been involved with the breach.

Weigel attributes the difficulties not so much to Ratzinger as to the Roman Curia and administration.

A reconciliation might have taken place had the Roman Curia supported Miltitz.

The further provisions of the decree of the Roman Curia were of secondary importance.

Clergy and laity were thus allied against the encroachments of the Roman Curia.

The prelates of the Roman Curia were "tricky as foxes, proud as bulls, greedy and insatiable as the Minotaur."

He was in the train of a Cardinal on a visit to the Roman Curia when the plague broke out.

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