The other 31 percent said they believed in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Though that study has been criticized by several Catholic ... but instead are “symbols of the body and ...

According to the new report, released Wednesday, Catholic adults in the ... asked an open-ended question about the Eucharist, avoiding words such as “symbol” and “real presence.” ...

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Both News-Times reports on the May 22 Catholic march referred to the Eucharist as symbolic. To say this is an immense understatement. Through baptism, all Christians are united. The major ...

We read a lot of stories in the news about people drifting away from the Catholic church ... Because we know that the Holy Eucharist is so much more than a symbol, we step into Heaven with ...

Almost 70 percent believe that during Mass, the bread and wine used in Communion "are symbols ... the Eucharist is really all about. Much of Eucharistic theology — especially the Catholic ...

Vinea Research, a Catholic firm that conducted the ... Jesus Christ is truly present in the bread and wine of the Eucharist b. Bread and wine are symbols of Jesus, but Jesus is not truly present ...

Sixty-nine percent of Catholics that Pew surveyed reported their belief that the bread and wine used during the Eucharist "are symbols of the ... The Catechism of the Catholic Church in paragraph ...