[OLD REGGIE]

I'm always dazzled by the fact that in that interval the meaning of "subjective" and "objective" seem to have changed places! I just mention that as an example of the not 'No-brainer" aspect of wrapping the cranium around the question. Fortunately it's not necessary to understand the Eucharist.

I agree with you but not in the way you might think.

Forget Aristotle. Forget Aquinas. Just say "It's a mystery".

[Mad Dawg]

You have GOT to read the newsletter from our Dominican Chapter. Or maybe not.

Catholics are accused often of answering a question with "It's a mystery." Why is this?

This is one of those silly charges one hears from time to time, undoubtedly the result of frustration. Imagine that you are engaged in a debate and think you have just back your opponent into a corner and then he counters with an argument that is impossible to disprove.

The truth is we can only understand what God has seen fit to reveal. The rest remains veiled and is a mystery that we must accept through faith. "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world ..." Corinthians 2:7


Why do Catholics prefer to sit in the back of the Church?

That we can't answer. It's a mystery.