{"id":88326,"date":"2026-11-11T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88326"},"modified":"2026-11-11T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T14:24:01","slug":"national-eucharistic-congress-only-29-of-american-catholics-believe-in-the-real-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/national-eucharistic-congress-only-29-of-american-catholics-believe-in-the-real-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 29% Of American Catholics Believe In The Real Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Zenit<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Three years of nationwide efforts to rekindle devotion to the Eucharist have left the US Catholic Church facing an uncomfortable question: how deeply do Catholics actually believe in the central mystery of their faith? A new academic study suggests that, despite an ambitious campaign led by the bishops and a major national Eucharistic Congress, belief that the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ remains strikingly low.<\/p>\n<p>According to research by sociologists Brad Vermurlen, Mark Regnerus and Anne Morse, published in the 2026 edition of Sociological Inquiry, only 29% of self-identified American Catholics affirm the Church\u2019s teaching on the Real Presence. The findings, presented by Regnerus on 3 November, are virtually unchanged from a 2019 Pew Research Center survey, which recorded 31%. The difference is not statistically significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Zenit: Three years of nationwide efforts to rekindle devotion to the Eucharist have left the US Catholic Church facing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88328,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88326\/revisions\/88328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}