Almost everything about catholic faith revolves around events that (allegedly) happened in the Middle East. Most of the holiest sites seem to be there in relation to the bible’s depiction of events. So wouldn’t it make sense that the pope/vatican would place its power center as near as possible from the holiest sites? How did it come to be Rome? Was this a decision based on the current political climate at the time or was there a reason based on faith/rethoric of the church?
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Because the Christians lost the Crusades.
A long time ago the Catholics and Orthodox were part of the same Roman Church and the Roman empire held Jerusalem. Islam came along and Islamic powers took over Jerusalem.
Then the Roman Church split into Orthodox and Catholic sometime after that. Then they tried to reconquer Jerusalem during the Crusades. Short story didn’t work.
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