Jenky: Real Presence not 'opinion,' but 'foundational' to Catholic faith

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Six weeks after the publication of a Pew Research Center survey showing that a majority of Catholics in the United States do not believe that the bread and wine used at Mass become the body and blood of Christ, this bishop began to do something about it.

Acknowledging evidence that “for several generations” the Catholic Church has not sufficiently taught its core truths, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky has called for all ministries of the Diocese of Peoria to be “intentionally centered” on the Real Presence in the holy Eucharist.

“This failure in faith and conviction has happened despite the fact that the received teaching goes back to apostolic times and has always been held as foundational to our Catholic identity,” he explained.
 
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I strongly suspect that the people who bother to come to Mass every Sunday instead of just at Christmas and Easter already know about the Real Presence. Let’s face it, in an era of clergy scandals and people being generally grumpy with one or more aspects of Mass, the Real Presence is the main reason people continue to show up.

Still, an emphasis on it can’t hurt and may reach some of the Chreasters or other infrequent attendees.
 
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I also believe that while many people intellectually assent to the teaching that there is a lack of conditioning people to physically consent to it’s grace through the habit of obedience and humility.
 
I’ve been wondering about this myself. How many in that study are regularly attending Mass and how many just identify with being Catholic. I will read the article. 👍
 
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I strongly suspect that the people who bother to come to Mass every Sunday instead of just at Christmas and Easter already know about the Real Presence.
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I agree. Most people who attend Mass regularly do so because they believe that Christ is truly present. Otherwise, they would not bother with going regularly or they would join a different Church where their obligations are “easier.”
 
From your link:

The PEW Research referred to the “actual” presence of Jesus in the bread and wine compared to the bread and wine being (mere) symbols of that presence. Gray theorizes that asking instead about Christ’s “real” presence in the Eucharist would have yielded different results, since “actual” in common parlance tends to mean “factually present as proven by empirical observation.” We’ll see if that turns out to be true when CARA tests the question later this year.

That was written in August last year. Do you know whether the expected CARA test did, in fact, take place, and, if so, what the findings were?
 
I didn’t find CARA’s updated report that the article anticipated for fall 2019. Only the 2007 report, which includes mass attendance as a factor.

Re age groups: looks like the kids are alright. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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https://cara.georgetown.edu/sacraments.html
 
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