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

Before the great curia regis the case was very simple.

The curia, as the Vatican bureaucracy is known, grew more powerful, stagnant and corrupt.

The only member that discharged functions in the oldest constitutional organization was the -curia-.

The development suggests resistance remains in the Holy See curia to the pope's reform process.

The putrid state of the curia was widely known, but never talked about in public.

It is to our health system what the curia is to the Roman Catholic Church.

But more and more they became an ordinary means for raising revenue for the curia.

Francis himself referred to "a stream of corruption" in the curia.

Earlier last week, they met six members of the curia, including secretary of state Cardinal Bertoni.

The curia thought that Victor Emmanuel would end at Canossa, but he ended instead in the Pantheon.

We find in this reign evidence of a large curia regis and of a small curia regis.

Intercourse with the papal curia grew more untrammelled, and appeals to Rome especially increased to astonishing frequency.

The small curia regis was the same as the larger; the larger was no more than the smaller.

Cases were brought to the smaller body for trial, and its decision was that of the curia regis.

I'm sure the Roman curia officials immediately understood: 'This pope is going to be much less controlled by us.'