[terycarl]

.....you have got to be kidding....'Process of elimination' to determine if the churches of rome were catholic or not?????? and your response is avoidng the proof. The process of elimination was, as you well know, an attempt at sarcasm. But the fact remains, the Catholic church is the only, historical, reliable source of Christian history. When you come along 1500 years after the program started, there is a good chance that you are late for the program. It would be neat if you could make up your own rules as you go along but I don't find that anywhere in the bible.

[caww]

the Catholic church is the only, historical, reliable source of Christian history.

You still evade proving that Rome's churches were catholic. Why is that?

Could it be because when one looks closer at we see that they weren't?... That in fact when catholicism rose was when it actually instituted false teachings from that of the Christian Community and sought instead to establish it's own hierarchy against the will of the Christian Community at that time?