i thought you said in a previous post you considered yourself a Catholic once. Hard to believe, especially when you try to say what it teaches. “Rome” doesn’t teach it’s Peter is the head of the Church! The head of the Catholic Church is Jesus, but He left Apostles of which Peter was the visible leader and sign of unity. When Apostles went around the known world preaching and setting up local Church communities, they appointed Bishops to carry on their mission once they were gone. These Bishops appointed other men to succeed them, so you have this Apostolic Succession to the present day. The Bishop of Rome, as the successor of St. Peter is the visible head of the Church, but it it Jesus’s Body and He is the Head!
I was baptized and raised Catholic. The Catholic church considered me a Catholic and to hear many talk, still does. Once a Catholic, always a Catholic.
Jesus did NOT establish the Catholic church. It did not come into existence until the time of Constantine. History bears it out whatever delusion the Catholic church operates notwithstanding.
This business of claiming that everything up until that time was by default Catholic is a pretty poor excuse for a major league power grab.
Even supposing as a exercise in thought, that it might have been true, the corruption and immorality which has pervaded the Catholic church since its inception at the time of Constantine has effectively disqualified from being able to claim that title any longer.
In Revelation, when Jesus spoke to the seven churches, He warned them to straighten out or He’d remove their candle from its lampstand. He did that for churches for far less serious reason than the corruption and immorality that the Catholic church tolerates.
It is not exempt from that kind of discipline from Jesus, if they really were a true church. But considering the path they’ve taken, they wandered off that path millennia ago.