“I recently attended the U.S. bishops’ Spring Plenary Assembly during which we voted to move ahead with the drafting of a teaching document about the Eucharist. Unfortunately, much of the media coverage about this decision by the bishops misconstrues what we actually voted for and the nature of the document itself.”
Bishop Kettler: My hopes for a teaching document on the Eucharist
Communion proposal highlights first two days of bishops’ meeting
A proposed document to examine the “meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church” received a thorough discussion June 17 during the second day of U.S. bishops’ spring general assembly.
Greg Erlandson: Making sense of the Communion debate
“Has there been an erosion in Catholic belief about the Real Presence, and what does this mean for the Church?”
Pastoral aims to ‘reinspire’ Catholics to have deeper love of God in Eucharist
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix has written a pastoral letter to the faithful aimed at bolstering faith in the Real Presence in the Eucharist.
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Honoring the Real Presence
We can each deepen our faith in the Real Presence — and help our children and grandchildren to do the same — in small ways each day.
The Real Presence: What do Catholics believe and how can the Church respond?
Pew’s finding “certainly shows a failure in catechetics, but I think the Church faces a greater problem,” Jesuit Father Thomas Reese wrote in a column for Religion News Service. “Catholics have an impoverished idea of what the Eucharist is really about.”
Elise Italiano Ureneck: Miracle at Lanciano
Better catechesis and reintroducing devotions like processions and adoration could help to foster love and reverence for the Eucharist.