curial
- a word derived from curia.
Example Sentences
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“He served our Church in many roles — priest, scholar, diocesan bishop, curial official, & Pontiff. May Christ reward him for his loving service,” Gregory wrote on Twitter.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
But cardinals are rare birds in the city streets, tending to lay low in their apartments, sedans and curial offices.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2018
Dougherty is wary of the choice, citing the new pope’s age, theological vagueness, and unfamiliarity with the Vatican’s curial offices as reasons why Francis may be a transitional and mediocre Pope.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2013
No doubt several cardinals who will be most affected by a thorough curial housecleaning were thinking the same thing.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 14, 2013
His precise, curial style was easily victorious over the Jesuit's dog Latin, and his expressive German, with his pithy Lutheranisms, was more than a match for the general's Platt-Deutsch dialect.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
