From St. Paul to St. Augustine, the language of ‘bread’ doesn’t deny the Real Presence — it points to the deeper reality of ...

A recording of a debate about Jesus’ presence in the elements of the Lord’s Supper has inspired a new round of discussion ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

"To celebrate and live the Eucharist," he said, "we, too, are called to live this love, because you cannot break Sunday's bread if your heart is closed to others, you cannot eat this bread if you ...

We must worship the Eucharist. In worshipping the Eucharist, we are not worshipping a piece of bread or a cup of wine. In worshipping the Eucharist we are not sinning; we are not committing idolatry.

(RNS) — There has been a lot of clerical hand-wringing of late about Catholics who don’t believe what the church teaches about Christ’s presence in the bread and wine of the Eucharist.

Transubstantiation – the idea that during Mass, the bread and wine used for Communion become the body and blood of Jesus Christ – is central to the Catholic faith. Indeed, the Catholic Church teaches ...

Of course, asking Catholics what they believe about the bread and wine used for Communion is not the only potentially important question that might be asked about the Eucharist. One could imagine ...

In other words, Luke is reminding us that Jesus is the Bread of Life: the Eucharist and sees in these circumstance of Jesus’ birth a prophetic foreshadowing of the deepest truth about us.

And inside the sunburst, called the monstrance, was the Blessed Sacrament, the consecrated eucharist bread that Roman Catholics believe to be the body of Jesus. A young woman stepped into the ...

Sixty-one percent believe that the bread and wine are symbols. So, what should the bishops say in their document on the Eucharist? First, they should emphasize who should go to Communion ...

“There is substantial confusion about what the Church teaches about the Eucharist,” the report states. Respondents were then asked to choose from three answers about what happens to the bread ...