The Catholic Monitor

Cardinal Joseph Zen, Emeritus Bishop of Hong Kong, told EWTN'S Raymond Arroyo what the Chinese communist regime will do to the underground Church: “They will be allowed to function like underground bishops?” he asked. “Surely not. They are bringing them into the cage! That’s terrible. They are going to annihilate the underground Church.” Arroyo asked the Cardinal’s opinion on Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo’s statement that the Chinese communist regime best realize the social doctrine of the Catholic Church: “Please leave him in peace. We don’t have to waste time to talk about that… That made everybody laugh, okay? It’s a good laugh,” Zen replied Many of Francis's inner circle who oppose Zen like Sorondo are laughing stocks while others have little experience of contemporary China yet accuse the Cardinal of not knowing China. Catholic News Agency on the Catholic World Report reported: " Against his detractors , who have said the cardinal has little experien...

I finished watching the released first season of Vic Morrow’s TV series Combat on DVD. It shows the honor and goodness that our culture still had in the 60’s. Morrow’s character the Sarge is to this day, for me, an image of what a hero should be. Tough and courageous, but compassionate. Vic Morrow played the hero and on the set he was a hero. The assistant director of Combat Michael Caffey in the audio commentary for the Combat DVD had this to say about Morrow: “He was very nice person. He never yelled at anyone...He was very quiet when he had something to say... He had a 104 temperature in one show. He was there. He should have been in the hospital. It’s a wonder it didn’t kill him. He was just tremendous. He reached down into a tank and pulled someone out in one show and got a double hernia. So they put the little belts on him and he went right on acting. He was an amazing man. He was very knowledgeable about film and what it could do. It was pleasure to have him...I can’t spe...

Vatican expert Antonio Socci reported that an "important (non-Italian) Cardinal" and "several of his colleagues," apparently Cardinals, are rebelling against the present scandalous papacy and have threatened a possible "impeachment" or to deposed Pope Francis from the Office of Peter on the heresy of the denial of Hell. At the other spectrum, lay Catholics and readers of the Catholic World Report appear to be fed up with CWR editor Carl Olson and his boss Mark Brumley's spin of the latest Pope Francis scandal and are, also, rebelling What brought this explosion about is the article by Brumley written on April 2 which is called "Hell and Pope Francis" for Olson's CWR. In the piece Brumley whitewashes the Francis scandal of the statement attributed to him by his close friend abortion advocate Eugenio Scalfari where the Pope is quoted as saying the following: "Hell does not exist." Francis still apparently refuses to per...