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So I converted 6 years ago, and I knew going into the Church that the Pope was a bad Pope. The thing is... I did my due diligence before going in, so it didn't bother me. I was merely Christian before becoming Catholic and went to one of those big non-denominational "churches" for people that didn't have a "denomination". By due diligence I mean that I studied the history of Christianity for hours every day after getting home from work (I was single at this time). This went on for a couple months. What I found after studying the history of Christianity, and especially reading about the early Christians, and reading the Early Church Fathers, is that the early Christians were either Catholic or some form of Eastern/Oriental/Assyrian/Syrian Orthodoxy. The 10,000+ denominations of Protestantism just aren't consistent with believing what the early Christians believed, so they just aren't real "churches". Even reading through the book of Acts you can see that the Apostles founded actual churches that were all in communion with each other all over the Roman Empire. And the early Christians talk about obedience to the bishops of these churches, how the bishop of Rome is the prime patriarch of the Church, obedience to the Church in understanding Scripture (since most Christians couldn't read Scripture anyways), how the Eucharist is the real Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, how Sunday was the Lord's Day, how even though we are saved by Faith we must work on overcoming our tendencies to sin or we will go to Hell, etc. In other words, what Protestants believe, in general, is anathema to what these early Christians believed. Thus, if you have a common sense hermeneutic you can see that it's impossible for any of the Protestant denominations to be true, since they pretty much all deny one or more of these core beliefs of the early Church Christians. Therefore, it's clear that these Protestant denominations teach novelties that are heretical to what early Christians believed. Then once you realize that, you are just left with the Apostolic Churches: Catholicism and Orthodoxy. But then Catholicism wins because again, there was always a leader of the Church that had more weight to him, even though there were other Patriarchs. Again, in the book of Acts, it's clear that St. Peter is the leader of the Church, even though the other Apostles are Patriarchs, esteemed by the Church body. And when Peter consecrated his successor Bishop in Rome, he was considered the primary Patriarch, and so our there successors. The Orthodox even acknowledge this primacy, while simultaneously refuting his universal jurisdiction, but again, if you read many early Eastern Church Fathers, you can see they acknowledged the Chair of Peter as the highest office in the Church.

TLDR: Just read a lot of Early Church Fathers, history of Christianity, and do a lot of analysis of what the early Christians believed then vs. what different "denominations" profess now, and you will come to the conclusion that I did if you are being objective. I know many others that did what I did, and became Catholic converts for the same reason.

I hope this helps. God bless!