I believe the Catholic church controls Catholic churches, but the SBC doesn’t control churches that use the word Baptist in their name.
The great majority of Baptists are not Southern Baptist, and I don’t think that even the Southern Baptist churches have any authority that rules over them.
The problem is that the Church is not a military dictatorship. The Pope is a bishop, among bishops and the authority is not quite as clear cut as that either.
The great majority of Baptists are not Southern Baptist, and I don’t think that even the Southern Baptist churches have any authority that rules over them.
And the Church, while it has authority over individuals in the Church, has to work through the bishops. And if the individual bishops are, shall we say, departing from the Faith, it is a long process to correcting it. That is the history of the Church, going back to the first Councils. They were only called in response to persistent and obvious heresies. That is why the Councils reacted many decades after any occurances.