The Romans and Catholic papacy were perhaps the most barbaric people in the history of the earth, add the Spanish Jesuits to the equation and you do have the most barbaric empire that ever existed, worse than even the Musilms, but not that much worse. Jews were burned at the stake for merely refusing to convert to Catholicism. Mass numbers of JEws were executed and tortured. Even there are many Catholics in Spain and Italy today who are actually Jewish, but don't even know their roots because they were forced to forget out of fear. Many JEws today are discovering their true roots.
However, I think there are many Great Italians and Catholic people who don't follow the bureaucracy of Rome and the Caesar empire is older than the sand in Italia. It is history now. However, Rome would be an amazing place to visit just to relive history. I am wanting to go travel all around Italia, so I hope I can find a travel partner soon. The Italians are very nice people and many supprt Israel more than any other Western European country, except for Holland or Czechoslovakia, perhaps. My mother visited a synagogue in Italia about 50 years ago, the synagogues there are quite a bit older and more historical than what we have in the USA>