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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among other reasons, it could be also because this area is (and almost always was) unstable. Jerusalem has been handed over from one to another a number of times, and it’s always been a place of contention. today, it still is governed by a tri-lateral body (Jewish-Christian-Muslim) and they have hard time agreeing on almost anything – including such trivial things as to who is to change a lightbulb that’s gone bad.
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