re: #206 marjoriemoon

It depends on whose version of history one reads. There was in fact no such institution as the “Catholic Church” in the early centuries of Christianity. There was simply the Christian Church. The greatest influence in Christianity was the Greek version, not the Roman version. Putting aside the dubious claim that Peter was the first pope, the first popes were Greeks, not westerners. To use the term “the Catholic Church” is simply imcorrect.