That is, if I don't mess up.
The first thousand years were a disaster for Christendom? Apart from the tragedy of the separation of East and West, whose doctrine has deviated the most from that beginning in the past 500 years?
Of course I didn't say the first thousand years were a disaster for Christendom. I will say it became increasingly so as the power and wealth of the "Church" increased.
Do you think it was always a bed of roses? What happened to the first "heretics"? Were there any "Bad" Popes? Was there increasing corruption in this "Church"?
The first thousand years were a disaster for Christendom? Apart from the tragedy of the separation of East and West, whose doctrine has deviated the most from that beginning in the past 500 years?
None of the early "Christians" would recognize the RCC of today and for that matter, most of the Protestant Churches.
If I gave you a list of pejoratives for Catholic belief that I've seen, I really don't think you could match it.
It's not the list of perjoratives which are meaningful is it? If I damn you with one thousand different adjectives is it any different from damning you with one word?
The various Popes in history have had some loving words for "heretics" haven't they, not to say a thing about the fate of these "heretics".
Ecumenism means different things to different people and I believe it means "under the auspices of the Pope" to the RCC. Unless, of course, you can imagine the Pope being subordinate to a Christian Leader chosen by the "Council of Churches" for, lets say, a five year term.