AP Makes “Slight” Correction

TEXT OF CORRECTION:

ROME – In a May 26 story about Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to a Rome
basilica, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Catholics
believe the Eucharist represents the body and blood of Christ. Instead,
Catholics believe the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ.

SOURCE.

Oops!

Guess they started hearing from folks.

(CHT to the reader who e-mailed.)

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “AP Makes “Slight” Correction”

  1. Gospel truth!
    In this instance: more humility from the AP than from some Catholics!

  2. I wonder how many people in history died to defend that belief, so that in the year 2005 the largest worldwide news agency could still get it wrong.

  3. Well, DUH! If Catholics thought the Eucharist “represented” the body of Christ, we wouldn’t say that we “believe” that! We would KNOW it, just the way we know what other conventional signs mean. One might as well say that Americans “believe” that stop signs represent a traffic instruction.

  4. Saying that the Eucharist represents, or symbolizes, the Body and Blood of Christ is not in itself a denial that it is, in fact, transubstantiated as such.
    The Fathers commonly speak of the bread and wine symbolizing the flesh and blood of Our Lord, and they do so without intending to deny the Real transubstantiated Presence.

  5. In other news:
    34 AD –
    ROME – The Associated Press erroneously reported that Christians believe that Jesus represents the living God. Instead, Christians believe that Jesus is the living God.

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