I very much agree with you, Mokantx. Everyone "knows" that bishops and priests, and the Pope, are men, like all other men, and therefore subject to the sins and temptations that affect all men. The Books of 1st and 2nd Kings and Chronicles were put there by God to warn us, the church, that we are JUST as subject to the problems that they fell into. Paul reminds us of this fact in his first letter to the Corinthian church;

"For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did."