DBWI: Wank Catholic Europe

“Catholic” here meaning those parts of Christiandom which sided with the Bishop of Rome over the Eastern Roman Empire in the Schism of 1054, or those religious sects splitting from said tradition.*

No PoDs prior to the 14th Century.

*OOC: What OTL would call Catholic or Protestant.
 
Maybe avoid the "Era of the Dozen Popes" in the 15th Century? That and avoid the Byzantine Resurgence of the 14th Century (or the Paleaologus Restoration, as some prefer to call it).
 
IOTL was already a Catholic wank. The Byzantines were pushed back from the Siege of Vienna and never really recovered.

What else do you want? Catholicization of the entire Western Hemisphere? Reconversion of the Hussites and Prussites?

Short of ASB, the New World is the only place the Catholics could have expanded until the industrial revolution, if they discovered it a few hundred years earlier (maybe around 1500). Then maybe syncretism with paganism would have had time to be replaced by Catholic rites (I know the Franciscans tried something like that in Tenochtitlan).
 
Christianization of all of Iberia? Lithuania not adopting Orthodox Christianity?
Eh, I'm not sure the Christianization of all of Iberia would amount to much. As it was, lots of the Catholic settlers converted to Spanish Israelism during the Reformation and sided with Granada before the Cordoba Covenant. Christianizing Granada and al-Gharb? That just means more Moriscos in Spain.

As for a Catholic Lithuania, it wouldn't last long due to the huge population of Orthodox Christians in Ruthenia. With their more reliably Catholic coast being ravaged by Hanseatics and Swedes as OTL? Yeah, not happening. Of course, I could see the Poles saying "Glory to Rome", facing toward the actual Rome instead of Constantinople, if the dominoes fell differently. Then maybe their union with Lithuania would have survived.
 
Is there any way that Catholic Europe could have expanded its global influence (without necessarily converting other regions of the world to the Catholic family of Christianity)?
What else do you want?... Reconversion of the Hussites and Prussites?
For OP purposes, the Hussites and Prussites are "Catholic", in the sense of being descended from the Catholic tradition.

OOC: The Hussites being proto-Protestants, similar to the Lollards.
 
“Catholic” here meaning those parts of Christiandom which sided with the Bishop of Rome over the Eastern Roman Empire in the Schism of 1054, or those religious sects splitting from said tradition.*

No PoDs prior to the 14th Century.

*OOC: What OTL would call Catholic or Protestant.

Mass conversion of the Russian lands in the mid/late XV:
In 1448 Russian Church elected its own primate without consulting Constantinople
In 1452 Vasily II accepted decision of the Council of Florence with a provision that the Princedom of Moscow will have its own Patriarch elected by the Russian bishops but confirmed by a Bishop of Rome.
 
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Martin Luther successfully push the Pope and senior clergymen to Reform themselves from within? Without Protestantism taken as separate, the Church would have much more influence.
 
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