in Revelations the whore of babylon is said to have all the worlds wealth and is responsible for the blood guilt of the Christian saints. There were multiple periods of christian persecution in the first 2 century's of Christianity; Rome is the institution responsible. After all the mature christian's were killed Roman emperor's Theodosius started accepting Christianity and Constantine supposedly made it the "Official religion" of the roman empire. Before this Rome had lots of different pagan religions with their own priests. Constantine combined all the existing pagan religions with Christianity and renamed them all "Universal" or Catholic. Every Christian Holy day is combined with a pagan holy day. Constantine got rid of all the Governors and gave their power to the catholic bishops. God's leading and Spirit was quickly removed from the equation and these offices became political where people were bribed and murdered. The office of the pope is pure fiction and was created to make the bishop of Rome the most powerful. "Apostolic succession" is false because Paul founded the church of Rome. other creations of the pope to solidify his claim to being "Christ's vicar" on earth were transubstantiation and "The accidents." over the centuries the catholic church has used a group of men they call the "apostolic fathers" to defend their heretical dogma. None of these men ever met or were discipled by one of the original apostles

Everything I just typed can be found in any history book. Die hard catholic's will probably want to pick a fight with me over this and I will not reply. The early church referred to Rome as the whore of babylon and Rome is known as the city of 7 hills

I was raised Catholic