That is not a very Christian thing to say.
Anyway, St. Peter was the first Bishop of Rome. The first Pope.
The Catholic Church may well have had the Shroud of Turin which may well be authentic.
This is all apologetics and there are dozens of such sites out there.
It’s the truth. The author is a fool.
I see this posted a lot, but was it not in reality, proclaimed after the fact, i.e., after his crucifixion? Weren't there bishops sitting in other Middle East/Mediterranean cities at the same time?, e.g., Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Byzantium, etc?
There clearly was the East-West Schism of 1053 between Rome and Constantinople. I was always under the impression that the bishops in the Eastern cities considered themselves equals. It was the Rome See that saw itself as 1st among equals and eventually supreme to all others.
The Catholic Church may well have had the Shroud of Turin which may well be authentic.
While I have been following the story of the SoT with great interest since the late 1970s, as well as the search for Noah's Ark, I have netted out in my thinking that God would not allow any such physical proof (with the obvious exemption of The Bible to survive, i.e., belief must be an act of faith.