The Real Presence

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I noticed someone said that 70% of Catholics do not believe in the real presence. I thought we might conduct the same poll here in order to establish how accurate a snapshot that might appear.
 
me thinks your poll on this site will be slightly in opposition to a general population poll.
The teaching of the Eucharist is the only thing i clung onto my entire life,
 
fbl9 said:
me thinks your poll on this site will be slightly in opposition to a general population poll.
The teaching of the Eucharist is the only thing i clung onto my entire life,
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I’m not sure on that. The statement is not 70% of the population, but someone made the claim that 70% of Catholics don’t believe in the real presence. The reason I placed other options in there is I want those who are not catholic to be able to answer as well.

If 70% of Catholics in the world don’t believe in the real presence, then I would imagine you’d find at least a semblance of that here as well. We have a wide range of Catholics on this site, from orthodox to Roman, from liberal to conservative.
 
You can’t do any sort of “accurate” poll on a forum that is populated mainly by conservative knowledgeable Catholics - and not just “Joe in the pew” types, who may or may not even go to Mass every Sunday.

Now - if you want an idea of how many on CAF believe - then sure. But this is an extremely biased/skewed group to compare to the overall population.

~Liza
 
I agree it’s not a scientific poll of any means. I am simply curious. I would imagine though if 70% of the general population of Catholics do not believe in the very main tenant of their faith, the source and summit of the Christian experience… that you would find it also being exposed even in the most conservative of forums by some of the members. Or we would have to say that 70% of the Catholic population are not conservative?
 
The real presence can mean different things , you should clarify. Thank you,.🙂
Like Catholics and Lutherans believe in the Real Presence but different things about it.
 
I would vote either “I am Catholic and believe the churches teachings on the subject” or “It’s just a cracker and some grape juice” depending on the church that you are considering. 🙂
 
I think that the definition of the real presence is covered at the top by the answers themselves. Either you believe the churches teachings on it as a Catholic or you don’t believe in the real presence as presented. I guess I should have put an other?
 
bmullins said:
I noticed someone said that 70% of Catholics do not believe in the real presence. I thought we might conduct the same poll here in order to establish how accurate a snapshot that might appear.
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Considering that the word Catholic really embraces a lot of people I would not be surprised by the 70% number.
 
bmullins said:
I think that the definition of the real presence is covered at the top by the answers themselves. Either you believe the churches teachings on it as a Catholic or you don’t believe in the real presence as presented. I guess I should have put an other?
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i think it’s pretty clear. if you are Catholic and accept the Church’s teaching on the Real Presence, that is inclusive of the other “problems” presented re non-catholic churches, etc.
 
bmullins said:
I agree it’s not a scientific poll of any means. I am simply curious. I would imagine though if 70% of the general population of Catholics do not believe in the very main tenant of their faith, the source and summit of the Christian experience… that you would find it also being exposed even in the most conservative of forums by some of the members. Or we would have to say that 70% of the Catholic population are not conservative?
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Only 28% of Catholics attend mass on a weekly basis. I’m not sure how much I care about the other 70%'s opinion on the presence of the Eucharist anyways.
 
bmullins said:
I think that the definition of the real presence is covered at the top by the answers themselves. Either you believe the churches teachings on it as a Catholic or you don’t believe in the real presence as presented. I guess I should have put an other?
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So then question number two is not the Church teaching??🙂
 
Luvtosew said:
So then question number two is not the Church teaching??🙂
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No, I believe he is saying Real Presence is meant in the same sense as Catholic teaching. 1 and 2 are the same except 1 = Catholic, 2 = anything other Christian church
 
I believe that figure of 70%. In fact, I would say less believe, in my opinion. There are so many cafeteria catholics.

I have to say that this forum isn’t exactly the most accurate way of conducting a poll, though.
 
I have experienced one too many miracles in prayer before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament to believe otherwise.
 
I believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. During Mass, the bread and wine are transubstantiated (changed in substance) into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

**And as they were eating,
He took bread, and blessed, and broke it,
and gave it to them, and said,
‘Take; this is my body.’

(Mark 14:22)**

**And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks
he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.
And he said to them,
‘This is my blood of the covenant,
which is poured out for many.’

(Mark 14:23-24)**
 
Nate13 said:
Interesting study.

cara.georgetown.edu/beliefattitude.pdf
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That report has a lot of negative review. For instance, the survey claims that colleges have more influence than parents, so if someone believes against church teaching while attending college that it must be the college teaching against church teaching etc. It also has several flaws, including only interviewing 39 female catholic college students, out of the 1000 females involved and then using those numbers as a representative of a whole.

Very flawed study.
 
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