The 2019 Pew report that disclosed the pathetic state of American Catholic understanding of the Eucharist should have been a wake-up call for the American hierarchy. Two years after that report came ...

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 ...

The first Christian leader of any historical importance to deny the Real Presence in the Eucharist was Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531), the Swiss Protestant leader. Zwingli wrote: And how can we say ...

The Eucharist should be the center of Catholic life, but falling church attendance on Sundays shows that the center is crumbling. This, along with declining belief in the real presence of Christ in ...

[Editor’s Note: Brett Salkeld is Archdiocesan Theologian for the Archdiocese of Regina in Canada. He is responsible for deacon formation. His latest book, Transubstantiation: Theology, History, and ...

The questioning spirit of aggiornamento begun by Pope John, having opened up discussion on such long-settled issues as clerical celibacy and birth control, is now turning toward another and even more ...

I was first introduced to the concept of transubstantiation when I was a wee lad taking courses in Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD). It was there were my classmates and I learned that during ...

The Last Supper depicted by Spanish painter Joan de Joanes (1510–1579)(Wikimedia Commons/museodelprado.es) Transubstantiation, the Catholic belief that communion wafers and wine become the body and ...

The Last Supper depicted by Spanish painter Joan de Joanes (1510–1579)(Wikimedia Commons/museodelprado.es) Transubstantiation, the Catholic belief that communion wafers and wine become the body and ...