Since, "Catholictrue", you insist on making other threads about sedevacantism when they are not, here is a brief response to you.
In answer to the question, "Must the Catholic Remnant Have Governing or Jurisdictional Bishops?" the demons, I mean, the Dimonds faithlessly wrote "The answer to this question is no ... One could make the argument that there must always be at least one jurisdictional bishop somewhere in the world ... we doubt that this is even necessary ... The
jurisdictional hierarchy (all those possessing offices with ordinary jurisdiction) could conceivably defect from the Church by falling into heresy." Your denial of what the dogma of Apostolicity requires manifestly reveals you are a Protestant heretic who denies the Catholic Church has always been and will always be Apostolic until the end of time.
Principle I: The Church can never cease to be Apostolic but will remain so with shepherds and teachers as governing Bishops having succeeded to episcopal sees until the end of time:
This is easily proved from two dogmatic statements. In Vatican I, "just as he sent Apostles, whom he chose out of the world, even as he had been sent by the Father, in like manner it was his will that
in his Church there should be shepherds and teachers until the end of time." and from Pope St. Pius X, " I firmly hold, then, and shall hold to my dying breath the belief of the Fathers in the charism of truth, which certainly is, was, and always will be in
the succession of the episcopacy from the Apostles." as is amply confirmed unanimously by all the theology manuals, "“The Indefectibility of the Teaching Body is at the same time a condition and a consequence of the Indefectibility of the Church. …
the Teaching Body as a whole could not defect or die without irreparably destroying the continuity of authentic testimony” (Wilhelm, Joseph and Scannell, Thomas, A Manual of Catholic Theology, vol. 1, 3rd Edition) as well as in the CE. Do you admit this dogma?
Principle II: The true Church is identified by means of a 2000 year old unbroken line of Apostolic Succession, principally in the Apostolic Throne of St. Peter but also in other episcopal sees set up by this Throne:
This doctrine is unanimously taught by all the ancient Fathers, (for example St. Irenaeus in Adversus Haerasaes) and is urged by force with invincible force against all heretics of all ages. It is further adduced as being, by itself, an irrefutable fact that gives Catholic Christians infallible certitude of the falsehood of all heretic sects that have separated from the Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church. Most of the ancient Fathers as well as more recent Saints prefer to limit themselves to the principal or Petrine Succession, though they say the same could be shown in other episcopal sees set up by that Throne.
Brunsmann Preuss, Handbook of Fundamental Theology,
"In order to be able to distinguish with certainty the true Church of Christ from all false claimants, it is sufficient to establish the Apostolic Succession with regard to the primacy of Peter. For, since the primacy is the crown of the Apostolate, the Church which possesses the primacy must needs be Apostolic ... Hence that Church, and that Church only, which can trace its rulers to the first primate, namely, St. Peter, is in fact and by right Apostolic in every sense. Those regional churches which are subject to the successor of St. Peter, and live in community with him, participate in this Apostolicity. All others, be it that they have separated from the one only Apostolic Church or developed independently of her, lack the note of Apostolicity and consequently cannot be the true Church of Christ."
And St. Anthony Mary Claret in his Catechism,
"The fourth note or mark of the Church is to be Apostolic. That is to say, it was founded by the Apostles and is governed by their successors, the bishops, who since the Apostles, have succeeded without interruption ... it is sufficient to read the list of the Catholic bishops, especially of the Supreme Pontiffs of Rome as the continuing Head or principal leader of Christianity ... there is nothing more to say to them than what Tertullian said: “Prove the origin of your churches. Make us see that [/b]the order of your bishops has in some way through succession descended[/b] from the beginning, that the first was any of the Apostles, or had as a predecessor some of the Apostolic men who had persevered together with the Apostles.” Inasmuch as the heretical sects will never be able to show this, so it is that none of them can reasonably glory in being Apostolic. But on the other hand, since the Catholic Church is the only one that is able to trace Her origin to the Apostles, it follows from what I have said that She alone is in all truth Apostolic."
What you wrote about the entire hierarchy defecting above shows you are a professing Protestant who denies the words taught by Pope Pius IX in refuting the Old Catholics in Etsi Multa, "they do not blush to call themselves Catholics and Old Catholics, while in their doctrine,
novelty, and number they show themselves in no way to be either old or Catholic. Christ Himself is asked; He says 'and this gospel will be preached in the whole world, in testimony to all nations, and then will come the end.'
Therefore the Church will be among all nations until the end of the world." Do you believe and confess this?
Your dogmatic home-aloner nonsense really ruins souls, Mr. Dimond. I've seen it with my own eyes, souls who have stopped receiving the sacraments from traditional priests because of the poisonous nonsense you spew in your articles.