>parasitize Roman empire to the point when empire finally collapses it lives from the rents of ex roman provinces>while doing so, it poisons and stifles the very moral, political and social foundations of the power it parasitizes and back up a rival power to "keep the statu quo" and avoid "caesaropapism">barely survives the long desert that supposed the german caused Dark Ages of obscurantism clinging to the Catholic majorities in Latin Europe>At the first opportunity, it parasitizes the first Latin empire and manages to establish itself globally after the Roman Empire, ie, the Iberian Empire>while doing so, it poisons and stifles the very moral, political and social foundations of the power it parasitizes and back up a rival power to "keep the statu quo" and avoid "caesaropapism">manages to survive the second Germanic dark age, ie, liberalism/Protestantism/secularism/Marxism/Nazism into our days by living off the income from the former excolonies of Spain and Portugal2.000 years of ecclesiastical history cannot survive without a "lax morality". I wonder which empire will be the next one it will parasitize. If Latinxs have no excuse to fall in the same trick than their predecessors. It's like the fable of the frog and the scorpion.
The Roman Catholic Church didn't exist until the high middle ages.