 Hearing this, the Americans volunteered to accompany the Bishop, who dared to celebrate the Mass with a revolver beside him on his episcopal throne.No carabao turned out and, since then, the old Spanish Church was reopened for Catholic worship service.Bishop Rooker viewed the Philippine Independent Church as the ""Katipunan which had outlived its political usefulness and which, with a strong arm, the government suppressed as a political society, at once put on the soutane of the priest and become the Independent Philippine Church.""