You wrote:
“The Church did not write the Old Testament, and the Apostles or close associates wrote the New.”
No Christ-denying Jew attached the New Testament to the Old. It was only when Catholics composed the NT and attached it to the Old, naturally, that what we call the Bible came about.
“And if we’re talking about the time of Wycliffe, who was the Pope? There were several at the time, leading Wycliffe to joke that ‘we knew the Pope had cloven feet, but now he has a cloven head to go with it’!”
Who is the pope now? Benedict XVI. Yet there are more than a dozen other men claiming to be pope in the world today. We know who the pope is now, and we know who the pope was then. There were not three popes. There can’t be. There was only one at a time and we know exactly who they were and when they reigned as popes.
“We know who the pope is now, and we know who the pope was then. There were not three popes. There can’t be.”
Hope you like Wiki...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism
“According to Broderick:
“Doubt still shrouds the validity of the 3 rival lines of pontiffs during the 4 decades subsequent to the still disputed papal election of 1378. This makes suspect the credentials of the cardinals created by the Roman, Avignon, and Pisan claimants to the Apostolic See. Unity was finally restored without a definitive solution to the question; for the Council of Constance succeeded in terminating the Western Schism, not by declaring which of the 3 claimants was the rightful one, but by eliminating all of them by forcing their abdication or deposition, and then setting up a novel arrangement for choosing a new pope acceptable to all sides. To this day the Church has never made any official, authoritative pronouncement about the papal lines of succession for this confusing period; nor has Martin V or any of his successors. Modern scholars are not agreed in their solutions; although they tend to favor the Roman line.”[1]”