He had served in the Curia for almost 15 years before his election in April 858 as Pope Benedict III's successor.
Pope Francis has said he will do all he can to change the "introspective and Vatican-centric" nature of the Holy See, criticising the Roman curia for neglecting the wider world and its 1.2 billion Catholics.
The opponents of reform won him over to their side and, in 1407, succeeded in charging Stanislav and Páleč with heresy, and they were cited to the Roman Curia for examination.
Archdiocesan records ordered released by a Massachusetts judge show that Bishop Murphy, the vicar general and moderator of the curia for the Archdiocese of Boston from 1993 until the Vatican named him to head the Rockville Centre diocese in June 2001, was involved in helping arrange early retirement for Father Geoghan in 1996 after molestation charges against him first became public.
Reform of the suffrage system in late 1913 added a fifth curia for the upper peasantry, which had the right to elect twenty deputies.
For one, the Catholic delegation to the consultation is headed by Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis, who worked in the Roman Curia for many years.
So in retrospect, it was no surprise that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected since he was a familiar and trusted presence who had worked in the Curia for decades.
And abroad, Jason made something of a hobby out of cracking open the complicated culture of Italy and the Roman Curia for American readers, delving into the Silvio Berlusconi and VatiLeaks scandals, and then anchoring the Post's coverage of the papal transition.
In it, he blames the Catholic right -- led by Pope John Paul II and the powerful Curia -- for the deep crisis affecting Catholicism today.
The Curiae assembled into the Curiate Assembly, for legislative, electoral, and judicial purposes.
