"Foxe's Book of Martyrs" is a biased book written from a Protestant perspective to indict Catholicism. I put as much stock in it as I do Jack Chicks's comic books, which is ZERO.
There IS NO ORGANIZATION CALLED THE "RCC" there is nothing even officially called the Roman Catholic Church. There is a Latin (or Roman) Rite within the Church, but that's it.
I HAVE NOT acknowledged any "institutional barbarism" of the Church, that is a LIE and you know it. I stated a fact that the wars brought on by the Reformation resulted in massive and unnecessary bloodshed and that neither side was blameless.
So then, you deny the church centered in Rome and headed by men calling themselves popes did not authorize, condone, and enforce a centuries-long, worldwide persecution of those who dared disagree with it?
That will come as a great surprise to many.