[terycarl]

Not 'local', but CATHOLIC!! If some local churches failed because of their leaders in the first few hundred years of the church....m

How did the protestant churches in those towns do???

I thought so.

[Elsie]

How did the protestant churches in those towns do???

Nice try at: LOOK over THERE!

But the FACTS are (if you buy Rome's line that Catholicism started at Day One) those were FAILED CATHOLIC CHURCHES.

You are STUCK with your OWN albatross around thine neck and hoisted upon thine OWN petard!