Recently the Pew Research Center released a study with alarming implications. It showed that some 7 out of 10 American Catholics who attend Mass regularly do not believe the Church’s teachings about the Eucharist, transubstantiation and the Real Presence. Hence, our catechesis, preaching and, most importantly, the manner of our sacred liturgical worship over the last few decades have been, for the most part, a failure. As the phrase goes: “You had one job!” That is, hand on what you have received (cf 1 Corinthians 15). The blame must be laid – for blame there must be – on the shoulders of our shepherds since the 1960s.
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Committees won't solve the crisis of Eucharistic faith
recently the pew research center released a study with alarming implications. it showed that some 7 out of 10 american catholics who at...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

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