The 2019 Pew report that disclosed the pathetic state of American Catholic understanding of the Eucharist should have been a wake-up call for the American hierarchy. Two years after that report came ...
What do Catholics mean when they talk about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist? Depending on who you ask, most Catholics don’t necessarily know exactly what they are encountering in the ...
The questioning spirit of aggiornamento begun by Pope John, having opened up discussion on such long-settled issues as clerical celibacy and birth control, is now turning toward another and even more ...
In April 1812, the future president criticized the doctrine of the Real Presence for cultivating “pernicious tendencies” that “enslave the human mind” to the “arbitrary dominion of the priesthood.” ...
The Sunday Gospels for the past two weeks have focused on Jesus’ multiplication of the loaves and the meaning of that sign. Jesus wants to get his listeners beyond their mere sensual and temporal ...
In a series about the Eucharist, Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese says the Eucharist is not to make Jesus present so we can worship him. Reese also writes about the Jewish roots of the Eucharist, a combination ...
MEMPHIS — For much of the morning, the cathedral was silent, with just the sounds of people stirring in pews, children murmuring or the occasional cough. Some bowed their heads, eyes closed as they ...
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va., carries the monstrance through the crowd for eucharistic adoration, June 26, 2021. (CNS photo/Zoey Maraist, Arlington Catholic Herald) WASHINGTON (CNS) — ...
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