Rather than deal with your version of 9 volumes of drivel, here is just one sentence:
“And certainly nothing like that could be done by the Church since it had no power to execute in any case, ever.”
As you well know, the Catholic Church would determine someone was a heretic, and then turn them over to the state for execution.
I suppose the Popes felt that kept their hands free of blood, but on the Great Day, I don’t think they will find Jesus Christ agrees.
You wrote:
“As you well know, the Catholic Church would determine someone was a heretic, and then turn them over to the state for execution.”
No. A tribunal would determine after a trial that a person was a heretic. That didn’t mean he would be executed. Very few people were ever executed by the state for heresy.
“I suppose the Popes felt that kept their hands free of blood, but on the Great Day, I don’t think they will find Jesus Christ agrees.”
Since they acted in good faith and on what they knew, there is no reason to believe Jesus will find greater fault with them than He does for other men.