amazon have a great FACTUAL BOOK on this subject snuff
look outside the square at this subject
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness:
The Truth about the Vatican and the Birth of Islam Paperback by Gary Dale Cearley (Author)
There is much common between Catholicism and Islam: like worshiping idols (idols are not necessarily things, it is ideas too), killing GOD's people Jews and Christians, conquering the world by any (including covert) means; creating brainwashed psychopathic robots to do their bidding. By the way the office of inquisition is still in place and is ready to be used.
The most interesting book i have read on the papacy of rome
Is papal genealogy,the families and descendants of the popes
The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution.
Roman pontiffs bestowed great wealth on their families and forged strategic alliances with other powerful families to increase their power. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), for example, forced his daughter Lucrezia into a series of marriages for political reasons. When her marital alliance was no longer advantageous, as was the case in her second marriage, her husband was brutally murdered.
Many papal families also intermarried in hopes of forming a hereditary papacy; at least two members of the Fieschi, Piccolomini, Della Rovere, and Medici families served as pope. Papal families since the early history of the church are fully covered in this comprehensive work. Genealogical charts graphically show the descendants of the popes, presenting in many cases the interrelationships between the papal families and their relationships with many of the leading families of Europe. Detailed histories examine the impact of the papacy on each pope's family and how each influenced the history of the church.
And what's interesting they don't attack each other, they are palls not rivals. They also have one common enemy Jews and Christians
Look at what the Borgias Medici families did?
And yet you say these are the traceable bishops that succeeded peter?
