Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Eucharist, by Dawn Beutner

By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, Dec. 12, 2023

Dawn Beutner is the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. She blogs at dawnbeutner.com.

Are we afraid of appearing simple-minded by telling them that we believe God is really and truly present in the tabernacles and on the altars of every Catholic church, waiting for us?

Do just one-third of American Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, as was reported in this 2019 study? Or do two-thirds believe Church teaching on the Eucharist, if you question them more carefully as was done in this 2023 study?

Either way, faithful Catholics who attend Mass regularly didn’t need surveys to tell them that many American Catholics don’t believe in the Real Presence. Those who don’t believe make it obvious enough in the way they arrive late, leave early, and simply fail to show up for Sunday Mass.  ….

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