"Curial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pursuits to undertake a reform of the gross abuses which flourished at the very gates of their palace. The papal court was no worse and very little better than the courts of contemporary rulers, and the greed for money, which was the predominant weakness of the curial officials, alienated the sympathy of all foreigners, both ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey |
