One of the reasons evoked for the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival is the data from the 2019 Pew Research Center survey around Catholic faith in the Eucharist. The poll, according to Pew, has found that 69% of Catholics believe bread and wine are symbols, while only 31% of Catholics believe the Church’s
I take it as a privilege to be a forty-one-year-old Catholic theologian in the year 2023. Born in 1982, only twelve years after the promulgation of the reformed rites of the Second Vatican Council, I am in the main sympathetic to those who are often called Vatican II Catholics. My
Blaise Pascal wrote: “How I hate these stupidities: of not believing in the Eucharist, etc. If the Gospel is true, if Jesus Christ is God, where is the difficulty?” (Pensées §199). Pascal’s point was that if one accepts the rather incredible premise that there is a God who loves the
Last summer I participated in the McGrath Institute Summer Liturgy Series, “Will They Come Back After COVID?: Disaffiliation, Affiliation, and the Liturgy.” At the same time, I was teaching a course with Dr. Bronwen McShea called Reform, Renewal, and the Role of the Lay Faithful. One of the most important