[Gamecock]

While much of the material embodied, especially in the earlier section, is apocryphal, the work is in the main based on valuable sources, and while it is often biased it is indispensable for the history of the papacy

OK then.

[WriteOn]

Yes, it might be difficult for a church older than the printing press (ahem) to show solid records, but that doesn’t mean they are not solid. The expectation that documentation as old as the Catholic and Orthodox Church should be as reliable as Lois Lerner’s emails is a bit unrealistic, don’t you think?b you have confused the claim with a critical analysis that is appropriate to a post-printing press focus on scripture. The hermeneutic is all wrong.