PROVE it.
Give me the official documentation hat substantiates this claim.
And that's where you're dead wrong.
The Church was being called "The Catholic Church" in the FIRST century, while the Apostke John was still alive.
In fact, the FIRST century Bishop and lifelong disciple of John, Ignatius of Antioch wrote the folloeing on his way to his Martyrdom in Rome:
Ignatius of Antioch
Follow your bishop, every one of you, as obediently as Jesus Christ followed the Father. Obey your clergy too as you would the apostles; give your deacons the same reverence that you would to a command of God. Make sure that no step affecting the Church is ever taken by anyone without the bishop’s sanction. The sole Eucharist you should consider valid is one that is celebrated by the bishop himself, or by some person authorized by him. Where the bishop is to be seen, there let all his people be; just as, wherever Jesus Christ is present, there is the Catholic Church (Letter to the Smyrneans 8:2 [A.D. 107]).
WRONG again . . .
I already PROVED to you that the Catholic Church existed in the FIRST century.
As for ut bwing outlawed - it WAS. That's why they were being persecuted. The first 33 Popes were MARTYRED during this tme, along with countless priets, deacons and lay peole.
This is patently FALSE - and BOTH are condemned by the Church.
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2114 Human life finds its unity in the adoration of the one God. The commandment to worship the Lord alone integrates man and saves him from an endless disintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who "transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God."
2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.
Bearing FALSE witness is a sin. Do you knpw what happens to LIARS at the end?
Rev.21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, AND ALL LIARS, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”