Catholic Church needs to return to its humble roots
Jesus’s teaching was that there was only one god, and his disciples spread the message and it became the theme on which Christianity was based.
Constantinople was chosen as its base and the first Pope resided there. The ‘disciples’ migrated in a westerly direction and, as the numbers of followers increased and dioceses were formed, bishops were appointed to head them.
Rome fell into that category and, in hindsight, may have been a diocese too many. The wealthy Roman families saw this as an opportunity to gain power for their sons and they enrolled them in the Christian faith as soon as they were born, so they would become bishops or cardinals or even popes.
Some were cardinals by the age of 17, and rivalry within the Roman nobility led to feuds. Christianity advanced throughout Europe and dioceses were created in France and Germany, etc.
Some of the leaders of those countries became admirers of Christianity, so much so that they were persuaded by the Pope to form the Holy Roman Empire.
But Christianity was becoming more worldly than spiritual and, as they themselves were no longer practicing what they were preaching, it widened the gap for others, who had other versions of the religion, to compete for followers.
And so the prophet Mohammed founded the Islamic religion and it progressed rapidly, causing Rome to mount a number of crusades to obliterate it. Thousands of Muslims, and other non-Christians, were slaughtered and the humility that had been ingrained in Christianity by Jesus was diluted to almost non-existence.
It is time for the new pope to travel eastwards and court the orthodox Church, to take us back under its umbrella.
Christianity was based on the righteousness of the ten commandments and encompassed all human beings, until the Vatican introduced canon law as an escape route for itself.
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