Transubstantiation, the Catholic belief that communion wafers and wine become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, is often misunderstood, even by Catholics themselves. As Margaret Coffey writes ...

Transubstantiation actually developed historically as a very satisfying apologetic solution to the problem of how to relate “reality” and “symbol” in the sacrament of the Eucharist.

Turk’s piece, Transubstantiation, provides viewers with a comical expression of the Skip Gallery ethos: a "humorous commentary on consumerism". One of the so-called Young British Artists (YBAs ...

Just 31% of U.S. Catholics believe that the bread and wine used in Communion become the body and blood of Christ. Nearly seven-in-ten say the Eucharist is symbolic.

I was first introduced to the concept of transubstantiation when I was a wee lad taking courses in Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD). It was there were my classmates and I learned that ...

Jessamyn West, a library-technology advocate and editor at the popular community discussion site MetaFilter, calls it "the transubstantiation of the printed word".