No matter how they might twist this Metmom...Rome has certainly declared they are eating Christ....as follows:
“It has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread .......into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood........
.....This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation” (Council of Trent [1551]: DS 1642; )
.........And that in partaking of her Eucharist, ........“CHRIST IS CONSUMED”....... the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.’..........133 (#1323).
(www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm)
John 6:53-58 53So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."
But they neglect the verse where He says
John 6:63 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
It's the SPIRIT who gives life, not a piece of bread or an eucharist.