"one Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Eph. iv., 5). That is, as there is one Lord and one baptism, so should all Christians, without exception, have but one faith. And so the Apostle St. Paul not merely begs, but entreats and implores Christians to be all of the same mind, and to avoid difference of opinions: "I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms amongst you, and that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment" (I Cor. i., 10).

http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/docuмents/hf_l-xiii_enc_29061896_satis-cognitum.html

Please do not accuse me of asking a loaded question here, for me it is an honest one.
Where is IT? The UNITY?

This is a serious problem for outsiders (or fallen away Catholics like my husband) who are beyond confused and trust NO ONE.
And because these here all lay claim to Her, Sedevacantists, Fr Pfeiffer and Co., FSSP and NO all believe that they alone are the Church Unified.

Many Catholics quote private revelation like Fatima, La Salette, Quito and others about the crisis to come, the apostasy, and how The Church will go into hiding.

How can The Catholic Church go into hiding if She is to always be visible?

Is She visible to me by the guy sitting at home reading his Sunday Missal? The one whom I'll never meet?
(forgive me I mean nothing ill to anyone in this position, I have been there personally)

I am Traditional Catholic 100%, reject all heresies, and especially hate modernism, and yet, would be accused by the above persons (at least some) of being outside the Church because I believe She may still be visible.



Somehow She must be.

PS I don't see how this post could ever be a 'flatty' anything

They are Dogmatically important to all Catholics. Whether there is not a Pope reigning or there is not a Bishop in control of a certain See at any give time does not break that unity or visibility of the Church. If it did there would be many times in Church history where that unity would have been broken, which is not possible.

Also, there have been theologians who said that if the Great Western Schism would have been different in that there were no valid Pope in the duration, it would not have mattered (paraphrasing, I could get you the quote if needed).

"one Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Eph. iv., 5). That is, as there is one Lord and one baptism, so should all Christians, without exception, have but one faith. And so the Apostle St. Paul not merely begs, but entreats and implores Christians to be all of the same mind, and to avoid difference of opinions: "I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms amongst you, and that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment" (I Cor. i., 10).

http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/docuмents/hf_l-xiii_enc_29061896_satis-cognitum.html

Please do not accuse me of asking a loaded question here, for me it is an honest one.
Where is IT? The UNITY?

This is a serious problem for outsiders (or fallen away Catholics like my husband) who are beyond confused and trust NO ONE.
And because these here all lay claim to Her, Sedevacantists, Fr Pfeiffer and Co., FSSP and NO all believe that they alone are the Church Unified.

Many Catholics quote private revelation like Fatima, La Salette, Quito and others about the crisis to come, the apostasy, and how The Church will go into hiding.

How can The Catholic Church go into hiding if She is to always be visible?

Is She visible to me by the guy sitting at home reading his Sunday Missal? The one whom I'll never meet?
(forgive me I mean nothing ill to anyone in this position, I have been there personally)

I am Traditional Catholic 100%, reject all heresies, and especially hate modernism, and yet, would be accused by the above persons (at least some) of being outside the Church because I believe She may still be visible.



Somehow She must be.

Well, we live in such confusing times, with a severe Crisis in the Church. So the visibility is an issue that isn't necessarily settled (except among certain trads). I can understand your husband giving up, since it's all so confusing, and staying with the Church through tradition usually means taking a side, or picking a spot among trads groups who make the most sense to us. It's unpleasant when trads begin to anathematize each other over issues like this, though. Or any issue, really.

I take Archbishop Lefebvre's position, which is that the Church is occupied by a Modernist sect. As far as exactly where the visible Church is, I don't know exactly, though the conciliar church still has some of the aspects of the Catholic faith that remain, when those in the Novus Ordo system believe, teach, and worship according to the True Church, which isn't common, but it does exist. I believe that the Novus Ordo system itself is schismatic, though the Novus Ordo people don't always know that.