The Roman Catholic church in 2022.
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The Catholic Church has been around for nearly two-thousand years. If you have to go back that far to find an example where the church wasn't in a position of power and influence, you're more or less making my point.
That aside, the Catholic Church has little in common with the early church.
The early church were pockets of believers that rose up organically throughout Mediterranean world via the ministry of the apostles and their disciples. This early church didn't have an organizational structure with doctrines and a hierarchy determined by church politics. Most of this came later with the "Romanization" of Christianity, which only increased exponentially with Constantine's legalization of Christianity following the persecution of the first three centuries.
In many respects the early church had far more in common with modern Evangelicals, with their small in-home church groups and narrow focus on Jesus and the Bible, than the modern Catholic Church which has centuries worth of doctrines and traditions that have little-to-nothing to do with Christianity in it's original form.
It's kind of a shame that protestants throw away the Catholic Church, its ties to Jesus, and its ties to miracles and decide to believe in the beginnings of the Church but decide it became heresy randomly after it gets more established.
Especially the acknowledgement that Jesus was passing his church onto Peter, but ignoring the part where then Jesus said only Peter had the authority to pass it on after, and so on and so on....but I guess no one after Peter then counts...for some reason.
I think most of it must come from people just hearing how the Catholic church does things from detractors trying to discredit it, and not actually experiencing it themselves.