The Hopeless Popeless know they have to ignore many truths of Tradition, such as that taught in The Roman Catechism, to defend their indefensible schism.
Unity In Government
The Church has but one ruler and one governor, the invisible one, Christ, whom the eternal Father hath made head over all the Church, which is his body; the visible one, the Pope, who, as legitimate successor of Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, fills the Apostolic chair.
It is the unanimous teaching of the Fathers that this visible head is necessary to establish and preserve unity in the Church. This St. Jerome clearly perceived and as clearly expressed when, in his work against Jovinian, he wrote: One is elected that, by the appointment of a head, all occasion of schism may be removed. In his letter to Pope Damasus the same holy Doctor writes: Away with envy, let the ambition of Roman grandeur cease! I speak to the successor of the fisherman, and to the disciple of the cross. Following no chief but Christ, I am united in communion with your Holiness, that is, with the chair of Peter. I know that on that rock is built the Church. Whoever will eat the lamb outside this house is profane; whoever is not in the ark of Noah shall perish in the .flood.
The same doctrine was long before established by Saints Irenaeus and Cyprian. The latter, speaking of the unity of the Church observes: The Lord said to Peter, I say to thee, Peter! thou art Peter: and upon this rock I will build my Church. He builds His Church on one. And although after His Resurrection He gave equal power to all His Apostles, saying: As the Father hath sent me, I also send you, receive ye the Holy Ghost; yet to make unity more manifest, He decided by His own authority that it should be derived from one alone, etc.
Again, Optatus of Milevi says: You cannot be excused on the score of ignorance, knowing as you do that in the city of Rome the episcopal chair was first conferred on Peter, who occupied it as head of the Apostles; in order that in that one chair the unity of the Church might be preserved by all, and that the other Apostles might not claim each a chair for himself; so that now he who erects another in opposition to this single chair is a schismatic and a prevaricator.
Later on St. Basil wrote: Peter is made the foundation, because he says: Thou art Christ, the Son of the Living God; and hears in reply that he is a rock. But although a rock, he is not such a rock as Christ; for Christ is truly an immovable rock, but Peter, only by virtue of that rock. For Jesus bestows His dignities on others; He is a priest, and He makes priests; a rock, and He makes a rock; what belongs to Himself, He bestows on His servants.
Lastly, St. Ambrose says: Because he alone of all of them professed (Christ) he was placed above all.
Should anyone object that the Church is content with one Head and one Spouse, Jesus Christ, and requires no other, the answer is obvious. For as we deem Christ not only the author of all the Sacraments, but also their invisible minister He it is who baptises, He it is who absolves, although men are appointed by Him the external ministers of the Sacraments so has He placed over His Church, which He governs by His invisible Spirit, a man to be His vicar and the minister of His power. A visible Church requires a visible head; therefore the Saviour appointed Peter head and pastor of all the faithful, when He committed to his care the feeding of all His sheep, in such ample terms that He willed the very same power of ruling and governing the entire Church to descend to Peter's successors.
Well, the Hopeless Popeless claim there has been no Pope since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and when you ask a Sede where the Church is, they say It is wherever there are those who hold the true Faith.
Does it matter that y'all think there has been no Pope for 62 years?
No, there is all ways an interregnum after the death of a Pope before another Pope is elected?
Even for the length of time of sixty two years and so there is no visible Church?
The Church is spiritual and invisible..
But that is Protestant Tradition, an invisible Church.
OK, ABS will concede that sedes are Trads, Protestant traditionalists.
It is surpassingly sad that the Hopeless Popeless do not the more clearly see that Jesus is, has always been, and always will be the Head of His One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, during this time of doctrinal darkness.
Jesus is the Head of the His Church the Hopeless Popeless claims has apostatised but in making that claim they are blind to the obvious consequence of that clim - that if the Church did apostasise that means His promises were lies which means that Jesus is the worst liar ever.
Because of our sins and the sins of our brothers and sisters the Reign of Jesus over His Church in this dark time is a matter of His Infinite Justice whereas in other times His reign has been one of Infinite Mercy but the fundamental truth of our existence is that God desires that all attain unto Salvation and God has caused each of us alive at this time to be born at this time because it is during this time that each of us living will have the easiest path to trod to attain unto Salvation.
Should ABS be happy during these dark times?
Yes. It is the will of God that all that is happening is happening.
The Hopeless and Popeless are blind to these truths because they abandoned the One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church and only prayer, not rationality, will cause the ideological scales to fall from their eyes.