Survey of Catholics

You clearly did not state that anyone who views it as symbolic is not a Catholic.

They may be CINOs – Catholic in name only – but their actions and beliefs contradict the Church’s teachings.

Yashmak, thank God for the Quakers and other Christians who didn’t buy that slavery was evil but they didn’t want to impose their views on others. Or that Jim Crow was evil, but they didn’t want to impose their will on others.

Commenting on another thread here, I took the time to look up the story behind part of my comment:

Loretto Teacher Fired: Part 2: a Catholic high school expelled a student whose family was actively anti-abortion and had brought to the school’s attention that one of the teachers was volunteering at Planned Parenthood.

Those Catholics who don’t believe that are in the wrong.

You phrased this interestingly. You seem to be saying that a Catholic is wrong to view it as symbolic.

You clearly did not state that anyone who views it as symbolic is not a Catholic.

I would agree with you.

Just because something is a “central tenet” doesn’t mean that it’s a single criteria.

Of the differences between Protestants and Catholics, it is the Eucharist that is the central sticking point.

Most Protestants see it as symbolic. I know this because I was Lutheran until the age of 22.

The Catholic Church teaches that – after the Last Supper – Christ instituted Eucharist and it becomes His Body and Blood at each Mass. A perpetual, eternal reminder of His sacrifice.

Those Catholics who don’t believe that are in the wrong. Regardless of whether or not they sit in the pews on Sunday.

Of those Catholics that are battling Rusty, which of you believe in actual transubstantiation and how many of you believe that it’s merely symbolic?

I believe in the actual transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. It’d be stupid of me to think if it any other way if I am going to be a Catholic.

It isn’t a symbol for me. It is as real as one can get.

Most of the looney left treat politics like a game, and they have no idea what they’re asking for. The Marxist/Stalinists in the Democrat Party only want power.

Regarding transubstantiation – Christians who believe in it are called Catholics. Christians who don’t are called Protestants.

If this is what you believe, then I have news for you. Many of the people that you think are Catholic are actually Protestant.

However, I think you are wrong. Just because something is a “central tenet” doesn’t mean that it’s a single criteria.

As our Iranian-American national hero Agassi said ‘image is everything’.

Just want to correct that: US-born Agassi is the most famous sports personality of Armenian extraction. Please don’t confuse Armenian with Iranian. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1152468/bio