43% of Catholics reject transubstantiation

[Vico]

Sorry if this has already been posted elsewhere, but this is mind-boggling to me:

ncregister.com/daily-news/us-bishops-encourage-greater-devotion-to-christ-in-the-eucharist

From the article:

This is basically what Protestants believe. Not only that, but it seems as many Catholics have the same low regard for the Eucharist as Protestants. One of the major reasons I have not converted to Catholicism is because I cannot accept transubstantiation. But if nearly half the Catholics in this country can’t accept it either, then why not? Should I just become Catholic or should they all become Protestant?

American Catholics in Transition (2013) found that 50 percent of Catholics don’t know the church’s teaching on the real presence, but that 63 percent of Catholics personally believe that the bread and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ at the consecration which includes 17 percent that do not know the Church teaching. Only 4 percent are knowledgable doubters and 33 percent are unknowing unbelievers.

 

[josh987654321]

Bless you for addressing me. Not understanding the methods by which a clearly understood result is accomplished is not the same as not understanding a method not addressed by Christ, whose defigning characteristics originate from a greek whose God doesn’t resemble the Christian God, and whose results cannot be verified physically though it claims changes in the physical realm. It is beyond me as to why the Catholic church didn’t leave this as merely a mystery. Having to defign the process of transubstantiation, which christ himself didn’t address has merely caused more of God’s children to have something to disagree and argue over. It’s as if the church purposely tries to cause rifts in Gods children.

Transubstantiation:
the conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into the body and blood of Christ at consecration, only the appearances of bread and wine still remaining.

If you believe in the real presence, that when Jesus said “This is my body” and “This is my body” that it did actually become and becomes even today, the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, then ‘Transubstantiation’ makes complete sense IMO. There is no other way to look at it IMO.

Transubstantiation basically says, it still looks like bread, tastes like bread, it still looks like wine, tastes like wine (except for the Eucharistic miracles where the ‘accidents’ have also changed to confirm this teaching for those who have doubted in history) but we know that it has truly become and is now the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I hope this has helped

God Bless You

Thank you for reading
Josh