Would you risk death for the Eucharist?

We just watched the old film "The Cardinal", made in the days when priests were still allowed to be shown as men who love God and strive to do the right thing.

A lot of the struggles are out of date: chosing a Caesarian section instead of dismemberment when his sister has obstructed labor (she died from the operation, as doctors predicted); the session in which he confronts the KKK; and the naivity of an Austrian bishop in confronting the Nazis (until the Nazis show their real colours).

Supposedly, some of the incidents were about Cardinal Spellman, who was the NY Archbishop at that time...and some people ridiculed him for his strict "anti communist" stance that made him support the troops in Viet Nam. (Opposing that war is considered a mark of goodness by the elites in the US, yet considering the genocides that followed the communist take over, the part of the movie about the Nazis is eerily predictive of how naivity in politics can allow evil to triumph)

When the Nazis finally attack the bishop, who after learning that the Nazis plan to close all church schools etc. and stages a peaceful protest, the brownshirts enter his residence; the Austrian bishop and the hero (who at this point is in the Vatican diplomatic corps) delay their escape long enough to consume the Eucharist in the chapel...

This action is understandable to Catholics, because we know that the bread is Jesus, present under the appearances of bread (and wine) after the concentration.

No wonder the modernist catholics hate Eurcharistic adoration: Jesus among us.

The Eucharist and Mama Mary: The edge that separates those who believe and those who have their own agenda in the Catholic church.