The History of the Roman Catholic Church

Rome is unique in human history for a region to be so dominated by a single form of monotheistic religion and its accompanying culture. Only soudy arabia comes close to it for a far shorter period, he says. The early church looked to five patriarchs, not one, and there is still another pope in alexandria. It has not been good for the spiritual health of the roman church to look to a single leader, however much it helped pack the pews throughout the world.