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+ JMJ The Four Marks of the Church are present, and visible/knowable in order for all the world to be able to discern which of the claimants is truly the Church of Christ, His Mystical Body. Spoiler Alert: Even after 50 years of crisis, the Church of Christ is still Visible, it still has the Four Marks.  It is still the Catholic Church under the Successor of Peter. For further reading: The Four Marks of the Church As quoted in the above article: The four marks of the Church are integral to external elements that constitute the visibility of the Church: A unity that can be traced back to the Apostles in Government, Faith, & Worship. A universality from the beginning to end of time embracing all peoples in the profession of the same faith. The marks and the visibility of the Church are woven into a tapestry of the Church. Remove or mar one and the entire tapestry is ruined. A Church that lacks this visibility, cannot be the Church, just as a ...

+ JMJ The Fourth Mark of the Church! Apostolic Catechism of the Council of Trent (aka The Roman Catechism) The true Church is also to be recognised from her origin, which can be traced back under the law of grace to the Apostles; for her doctrine is the truth not recently given, nor now first heard of, but delivered of old by the Apostles, and disseminated throughout the entire world. Hence no one can doubt that the impious opinions which heresy invents, opposed as they are to the doctrines taught by the Church from the days of the Apostles to the present time, are very different from the faith of the true Church.

+ JMJ Mark #3 - Catholicity. As before, I don't have time to clean up all the text 'interpretations from Adobe.  Please refer to the original text for further clarity. P^3 "Catholic" Catechism of the Council of Trent (aka The Roman Catechism) The third mark of the Church is that she is Catholic; that is, universal. And justly is she called Catholic, because, as St. Augustine says, she is diffused by the splendour of one faith from the rising to the setting sun." Unlike states of human institution, or the sects of heretics, she is not confined to any one country or class of men, but embraces within the amplitude of her love all mankind, whether barbarians or Scythians, slaves or freemen, male or female. Therefore it is written: Thou . . . hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and hast made us to our God a kingdom. Speaking of the Church, David says: Ask of me and I will give thee the Genti...

+ JMJ The second Mark of the Church is that She is "Holy".  At this point I personally know that there are Traditionalists who will point (metaphorically) at the Clown Masses etc and say "That isn't Holy". Yep they're right, but that isn't a reflection on the part of the Dogma of the Church. P^3 "Holy" Catechism of the Council of Trent (aka The Roman Catechism) The second mark of the Church is holiness, as we learn from these words of the Prince of the Apostles: You are a chosen generation, a holy nation. The Church is called holy because she is consecrated and dedicated to God; for so other things when set apart and dedicated to the worship of God were wont to be called holy, even though they were material. Examples of this in the Old Law were vessels, vestments and altars. In the same sense the first-born who were dedicated to the Most High God were also called holy.

+ JMJ For Traditionalists, who have been relatively secure during this crisis, there is a danger of drifting from the Teaching of the Church. My contribution to preventing this from happening is the presentation of some key doctrinal points that serve as an anchor against the temptation of the 'resistance' and sede-vacantists. P^3