With the breaking news of the Pope resigning this month (the first time a Pope has done so in 598 years) the world is going to be filled with Roman Catholic propaganda over the next 6 weeks or so… its put the issue of the Papacy right back center stage. In the midst of all the media hoopla and rhetoric which is sure to occur, Dr. James White, some years back):

“We all heard the ‘2,000 years of Jesus’ Catholic Church’ mantra last year when John Paul II died, and it was almost never challenged. I would ask our writer to name, please, a single bishop at the Council of Nicea who believed as he believes on each of these topics: Marian dogmas (Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, Bodily Assumption), Papal Authority (infallibility), Purgatory, transubstantiation. Any semi-serious reader of history knows he would not be able to find such a person, so the claim of ‘2,000 years’ may sound impressive, but it has the truth value any advertising slogan carries: none. It may sound great to those ignorant of history, and to those who wear the glasses Rome provides that filters out all the extraneous problems and issues, but for anyone with an even semi-decent grasp of the past, it is a hollow, shallow claim.”See More