Ancient Rome persecuted Christians. They used them as a source of their own amusement. They were counter cultural until Constantine. He legislated that the state religion would change to Christianity. This isn't the preferred approach but it has a lot of influence obviously
Well personally I don't subscribe to the notion of a papal authority. But, about half of Christian's do. Those actions are condemnable even by the church itself. They've been removed from power in many cases. They cannot be ordained. This is different than LGBTQ where deviant is seen as a qualification or even as a virtue.
Bureaucrats in other words