That may well be the Jack Chick Classic Comix version of Church history but no ratuional person with any sense of history or knowledge takes the likes of Jack Chick any more seriously than one would take the Tales of Maria Monk or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Jack Chick is an example of the terminally ignorant leading the terminally ignorant. As a religious observer, Chick has chosen well his medium--the comic book--which very accurately reflects the depth of his analysis.
So the stuff in Jeck T. Chicks track stand.
Months ago I discussedthis same theng with several FR Catholic heavies and one was furious that A catholic would expose theri dirty laundry to a protestant
In so doing he unwittingly admitted all this was true.
Pope Gregory could not have said and did what he did unless what stain basil said indeed happened and the church was indeed overrun and went down from that point their own man- made path.
By the way you do know that the "pre-pope" and all the bishops of rome were rounded up and executed in 256 AD and that one of your said was given the task to give away its scrolls tand givie out its banks to the poor the man was also arrested and executed a week later
So the sucession stopped there -- and its accounts are all certified by the catholic church