[DManA]

Give us a list of people who we can rely on to speak for the Catholic Church. Apparently according to people like you their is none.

The only reason people listen to these guys is that they wear the red cape. And if they don’t speak FOR the church the certainly cloth themselves with the AUTHORITY of it when they speak.

[Petrosius]

I think that you misunderstand the authority of bishops. They exercise an executive authority individually in their proper dioceses but their doctrinal authority is exercised infallibly only when they are gathered in an ecumenical council united with the pope. In their individual day to day teaching they are bound by the universal magisterium of the Church. This magisterium is easily recognizable in the universal ordinary teaching of the Church and in extraordinary declarations of the popes and ecumenical councils.

Remember that under King Henry VIII of England all the bishops, with the exception of St. John Fisher, made the ultimate accommodation with the state and broke with the Holy See, surrendering the church to the king. Catholics in their day would have been right to object to their actions and hold on to the true Catholic faith. Today we should be equally ready to call the bishops to proclaim and protect the true Catholic faith.