My comprehension that it isn't Jesus Christ but God they claim to be the Vicar to. From what I thought I knew, was that Catholicism was comitted to the extermination of the Christians, ignored the New Testament and worshipped Mother Mary to the total exclusion of JC. I also thought the Catholic Church came into being sometime in the 1300's. That would make them not founded by JC. I think it was Paul wasn't it who did the whole Church thing..... sometime long after JC was sorted out.