A new study has found that Pre-Vatican practices are strongly associated with belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
The research, by Dr Natalie A. Lindemann of William Paterson University, appears in the latest volume of the Catholic Social Science Review. It builds on her earlier work by using a larger and more representative sample of American Catholics and examining additional factors influencing Eucharistic belief.
Her survey of 860 Catholics found that only 31 per cent were certain of the Real Presence, while nearly a quarter said they were certain the Eucharist is merely a symbol, with the remainder falling in between.
