the papacy has launched several crusades over the last thousand years (including crusades in europe to convert germans and slavs with violence and to wipe out heresies in southern france by punishment of death), has overseen the inquisition, has condoned slavery of non-christians (heathens and saracens), has launched pogroms and other attempts to commit genocide against the jewish population and has even overseen a military dictatorship at times, including wars of conquest against other italian city-states. it has also picked sides in virtually every european war that there ever was, including things like sanctioning the norman invasion of england in 1066.

it just might be the most absurdly ahistorical statement that i have ever seen.