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I think you will find similar problems in the Orthodox Church. For instance, most or all of the bishops in Russia belonged to the KGB, and they have always had a problem of being too close to the political authorities. The Church split in 1054, but it's not as clear as you seem to think which is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of the creeds, and which is in schism.

A question for Catholics. If evolution is true, and the Bible lied, or allegorized, the 6000 year Creation time- frame...

... then how do you know that Jesus really said "Upon this rock I will build my church"? Maybe they misheard Him. Maybe He meant it in some vague allegorical way, and didn't at all mean it the way Roman Catholicism claims He meant it. Maybe the Gospel writer ad-libbed it and it was never said.

Point is, if you don't believe the Genesis account of Creation, then why would you believe anything else that is said in the Bible and that INCLUDES all the other statements like "upon this rock" and "the keys to the kingdom" etc, by which the Roman Catholic Church demands subservience to it.

If Peter was the bishop of Rome, and it's HIS bones under the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, and Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom...? Or am I not seeing all the details here?