I have now done so. Post 23 is about things that happened in 1492 and 1478, which of course have no bearing on the origin question, as this was a long time after.
If you refer to the community established in 780-823 AD, that also is well beyond the founding of the Catholic Church, and therefore not relevant to the origin question.
Yes, we have heard that before, and as before the answer is the same. Absence of evidence in the bible is not proof that something is wrong.
I know we have a disagreement over the epistemology of religious doctrine.
..or when they actually are speculation.
It is not justification of anything. It is refutation of something.
I didn't say it was. It is simply true by examination.
Where have Catholics ever used the lack of mention of something as justification for a belief?
No. I am only denying the power that no earthly organization has ever had - to totally erase all records of such a huge thing as 300 years of Christianity.
Did that erase all written record of the event? Obviously not, since you know about it.
No, they never have had such power. Even when the winners dominate the historical record, there is still subculture comprised of the losers who remember and pass it down so that it is eventually revealed. But even now, when non-Catholic churches have comparable political power, that missing historical record still has not surfaced.