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• n  (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church

• The turnover in Curia membership could start quite soon.
• Two years ago, Paul announced that he intended to reform the Curia; so far, his only visible step has been to have Francesco Cardinal Roberti, a curial man himself, ask the .

• Curia

News & Articles

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• Mother Tekla: the most powerful woman in Rome
  If the leadership of American nuns is the vanguard of a progressive spirit up against the Vatican, Mother Tekla Famiglietti is a throwback to the past: an orthodox leader who learned the rules of the game and wields power in the all-male world of the Roman Curia.
  June 15, 2013 - National Catholic Reporter

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Zenit News Agency
  The Pope noted that the synod fathers proposed a compendium: "The competent offices of the Roman Curia will publish a Compendium which will assemble texts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, prayers, explanations of the Eucharistic Prayers of...
• Michael Marrus in CBS News
  Leaving aside what he called the "numbers game" of Inquisition statistics, Marrus said: "While the pope is a great promoter of the apologies, not everyone in the curia, and certainly not everyone in church leadership, shares this disposition."
• Stanislaw Dziwisz in Zenit News Agency
  In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, archbishop of Krakow, and John Paul II's former secretary, said: "Now the word passes to the Curia in Rome."