WHERE HAVE ALL THE BISHOPS GONE?.

 1. The devil had hurled many attacks upon the Catholic Church. 
     Often the devil had used persecution and the classical example were the days of the Roman emperors. Used by the devil, the Roman emperors used fear to make Christians apostatize. Since life is the most precious commodity on earth, its lost was always of great concern. And people would give up anything to save life. For this reason doctors are more worshipped than God. 
     But persecution and martyrdom had shamed the devil in that even small children, like St. Agnes and Jose Sanchez del Rio of Cristeros fame showed contempt for death.
     Heresies were even more effective than martyrdom that is why the devil switched tactic after a few years of persecution. Heresies had destroyed more souls than persecution. Though the devil had never abandoned any of these tactics, it is almost certain that he knows that his most potent weapon was the raising of an anti-pope. 
     The Catholic Church stood well against the threat of martyrdom since in this way the blood of martyrs became the seed that made the Church grow. Heresies raised great bishops and priests who battled them with great success; we recall the Jesuits’ battle against the reformation of Martin Luther. 
     But there was one battle where no names of cardinals, bishops or priests were ever mentioned; though this was the greatest battle of them all. This is the exposition of anti-popes when there were several popes in the seat of St. Peter. The damage of such a situation is incalculable for there were more than 40 anti-popes in the history of the Papacy ….and yet no member of the hierarchy engaged them. 
     It seems that the devil had always chosen the perfect time; he raised anti-popes when no bishop existing could distinguish one from the other. And in truth history showed no bishop ever pointed out the true Pope from the anti-pope during those times. It was mere laymen and laywomen, living holy lives who did this enormous job. St. Catherine of Sienna is the more popular one, a lay secular Dominican  tertiary. And there was St. Bernard of Clairvaux, that time a lay monk. 

2. We have a similar situation today.
     We have  a situation that most graduate from seminaries who are bishops and cardinals today do not know their Catholic Religion inspite of the fact that the Catholic Church have a treasure of available writings explaining Catholic truths. 
     We have noticed this when Pope John Paul II came here and ordered all the Bishops to make a new seminary curriculum because the existing curriculum was producing faithless priests. A new curriculum was made but was never implemented. So today, our seminaries are still producing faithless priests and they are now bishops and cardinals. 
     How can faithless bishops detect an anti-pope when they cannot  even see the visible signs of the true Church described at the Nicene Creed. And they cannot see that their parishes and diocese do not have those visible signs that are proofs that they are truly Catholics. These visible signs are the only way to distinguish one from the other. 

3. The biggest issue today that settles all questions.
     There are many issues being debated today. Who is right? The traditionalist or the the Novus Ordo, the Pope or the Franciscans of the Immaculate, Cardinal Burke or Cardinal Kasper, Fr. Radcliffe or Cardinal Zen, sisters of Mother Angelica or the Nuns in the Bus. To try to settle the differences in the above issues is enough to drive one insane. Let us simplify the issues. Just ask the question; who is truly Catholic and who is not. To answer let us use the time tested four visible signs indelibly written in the Nicene Creed. Or just the easier 15 Marks of the Church by St. Robert Bellarmine which are an expanded version of the four visible signs. And simply said; he who has the four visible signs is right and he who does not have the four visible signs is wrong. 
     The issues involved are Catholic truths. All we must do is find out who is Catholic and surely he has the truth. And who is not Catholic and he does not have the truth. What can be more simple than that. But no one wants to use these signs. Maybe they do not know these signs or cannot understand these signs. 

4. It is important to settle this issue  because the salvation of souls is dependent on the answer to this question.   It is for this reason that this blog had been insistent in resolving this question. Each diocese, parish and seminary should show proof that they have the four visible signs of Catholicity. It seems most of them do not have, in which case it will follow that all Catholic organisations, secular institutes and religious order would probably not have the same visible signs. 
     Now, this is not a desire in our part to discredit any one. It is our deepest desire to force everyone to check and find out for sure if truly they are Catholic or not. Because the very salvation of their souls depends on this.  And the one who must first check on this are the bishops; they must check if their diocese have the four signs of Catholicity.  The few diocese where I have lived have absolute none of the signs. And neither the few parishes where I have celebrated Mass. 

5. Hints of a repetition of the devil’s third attack. 
    Since the devil have seen that raising an anti-pope destroys the greatest number of souls more than persecution and heresies, well….why doesn’t he try the three together. A brilliant idea that can only come from an angelic intellect. 
     Suddenly we see the devil in high gear. He fills the world with persecution of the Catholic Church. Physical and spiritual persecution abound in every corner of the world. The world is filled with priests and bishops whose mouths spew heresies all found the in the syllabus of error of Pius IX and Pius X. 
     And suddenly we have a Pope that is unlike all other Popes. He is not behaving according to the oath he took when accepting the papal office. He is going against all the teachings of Christ which he is supposed to uphold with his life. He is super kind to all the enemies of the Church and unkind to the faithful members of the Church. 
     In fact, after the Bishop’s Synod of 2014, when the bishops who rejected  Pope Francis’ ‘proposal’ went to Pope Benedict to complain on the leadership of Pope Francis and asked him to show them what is going wrong with the Synod he mentioned, practically, all the encyclicals of Pope John Paul. But emphasising that the Synod had gone against Pope John Paul’s greatest Encyclical exclusively addressed to the Bishops ‘Veritatis Splendour.’ As if saying that the Synod had gone against all the teachings of the Catholic Church. He repeated this message in a recent published interview with a Jesuit, Fr. Servais. 

6. Signs are evident that the devil seems to know that it is time to use his third weapon that had destroyed the greatest number of souls. He can see that most do not know the visible signs of the Church; either the four nor the 15 expanded version. He can see that everybody thinks they are Catholic; bad priests, lax nuns, adulterous couples, drugged teen agers, petty thieves and countless catholic Protestants, married male couples. The devil would not miss a chance like this for the world. 
    And most cardinals, bishops and priest cannot prove that they are Catholics by showing the four visible signs. Of course, they cannot show them because they do not have them. There,  the scenario is prepared. We can have ten Popes and nobody, absolutely nobody would know which is the true Pope. Everybody would be choosing the pope that would cater to the desires of their concupiscence. The more popular one would be the one who would tolerate abandonment of one’s former family  and commit adultery,  the one who would welcome same sex marriage, and all those who are in the peripheries of society because they do not want to enter the true Church. 
     But God in His mercy would probable not make the choice difficult. Instead of 10 popes maybe he will just allow two Popes. That would be easier for us to decide. And again, this decision is of the utmost importance; because the very salvation of our soul will depend on whether we make the right choice or not. The one we choose is the one we will certainly follow. One will definitely lead us to heaven. The other, somewhere else. 

7. Where have all the bishop’s gone?
     They have joined the ghostly resurrected spirit of Martin Luther. 
Wasn’t it the heresy of Martin Luther that destroyed more than half of the soul of Europe, a type of what is going to happen today?
     Look at their reaction to ‘Amoris laetitia.’ No reaction to a document where Chapter 8 is a act of schism from the Catholic Church. A few voices like the Polish bishops had cried out ‘foul!’ But the rest showed silent compliance like the Philippine bishops. The news is that some laymen are organising a Symposium in Rome to demand that Pope Francis withdraw the Apostolic Exhortation. 

     The Catholic Church is a prophetic Church. All that has happened to her are types of what will happen in the near future. The reformation happened before, it will happen again today. How could we have forgotten the reformation.  No we haven’t. In fact Pope Francis will join the Lutherans in celebrating the centenary of Martin Luther’s nailing of his thesis with the comment that Luther have helped open our eyes. What eye?
     The corruption of the bishops, the mishandling of Martin Luther’s objections, the enjoyment that was being newly introduced to the world. All make up the perfect ambiance for the devil’s one last hurrah upon the Catholic Church that he hates so much. And he had just seen the best time for it. Man, himself,  with his love of self and the world had made the preparations for it. 

8. A few weak voices.
     During the Passion of Christ, there was hardly a voice who objected to the Passion. That is exactly what will happen today. Probably a few weak voices will sound but it won’t prevent the Passion. 
     During the papacies of John XXIII to Benedict XVI, many have written describing them as fake Popes. Refuting them was easy. We just proved that those Popes had all the four visible signs of the true Church, namely, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. We took the proofs from their encyclicals, audience addresses and from their very behaviour. While on the other hand we showed that their accusers did not have a single visible sign of the true Church. That is how easy  it was to use this instrument. 
     Suddenly we have Pope Francis and most of the Bishops and priest devoid of any of these visible signs. We were stunned. But any Catholic can easily study these four signs. It is found in any catechism book. It is equally easy to apply it on anyone, like your parish priest and Diocesan Bishop….and even on yourself; to find out who is Catholic. Why doesn’t everybody try it since our very salvation depend on it……on whether we are truly Catholics or not.