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Yes, I've read the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Eucharist. This belief contradicts Scripture. The article states that no bread is eaten, that the bread becomes body alone. The article states that we taste bread because only the accidents of bread are left, but not the presence of bread. I guess this is a better answer than saying "If you taste bread, then your senses are lying to you." (This was the answer during the dark ages I think.)

1 Corinthians 11 states repeatedly that we eat bread.

Verse 26 For as often as you eat this bread
Verse 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread
Verse 27 eat of the bread

I guess you could state, like adiaireton8, that RCC tradition superseeds Scripture. Post 539

But is seems pretty clear that Paul states that we eat bread. Please tell me how I am not understanding 1 Corinthians 11.

1 Cor 11 also states that some members of the church were getting drunk during communion (verse 21). So if no wine is left, how does the body get drunk?

The Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Eucharist says that only the accidents of bread and wine are left and these accidents only affect the senses of the body. But getting drunk is not a sense, it is a chemical reaction.

So if it looks like wine, tastes like wine, affects the body like wine, it must be wine. But it is also the true blood of Christ; He said so! I don't understand it. It is a mystery of God.