Why is the Vatican not appointing new underground bishops?
Within the last 5 or 6 years or perhaps longer, many elderly underground bishops died from natural causes or died in jail. One would have thought that the Vatican would approve new bishops to replace them. Not so. Not even one new underground bishop has been appointed by the Vatican in this period, regardless of the fact that many Patriotic bishops have been consecrated. Some of them are reportedly consecrated with Vatican approval. One has to ponder why the Vatican has not appointed new underground bishops for the last few years while in the meantime advocating unity by combining the official (schismatic) Church and the underground (true) Church into one official (schismatic) Church and propagating that these two Churches are the same Church. It is frightening just to think about this complicated situation. In the meantime, a Jesuit journal published in Italy, Civita Cattolica, whose articles are generally understood to have the prior approval of the Vatican Secretariat of State, publ
