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The Eucharist is Not a Symbol

The Catholic Frequency

If the Eucharist is just a symbol, Flannery O'Connor said, "to hell with it" — and she was right. This episode walks through why the Real Presence is the entire Catholic faith in miniature, traced from Ignatius of Antioch in 107 AD through the saints to the sobering Pew finding that two-thirds of American Catholics believe the Eucharist is only symbolic.