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Then why don't you plainly answer the question, which not one among many RCs asked before have yet to do? Do you hold that one must believe (in the Real Presence) and receive the Eucharist in order to have life in them, and eternal life? Affirm or deny.
Any Catholic who would answer your question is overstepping his boundaries as a faith-filled servant of Jesus Christ. Hitler, John Wayne Gacy, and/or Margaret Sanger, could all be in heaven. This is the beauty of the Catholic faith. It's not our call, it's His.

What believing in the Real Presence and receiving the Eucharist WILL do for a person, is fill them with His strength and His power. Who wouldn't what that?

I am left alone in a world where so many lament their loneliness.
If only souls would come to Me and would tarry in My presence,
they would discover a Love that fills the heart so completely that it dispels every loneliness
and becomes wondrously fruitful in the lives of those who accept it. -from Fr Mark Kirby
Fr Mark Kirby is a Benedictine Monk of Perpetual Adoration. He spends more time before the Blessed Sacrament than most protesting Protestants do on Free Republic. And it shows in his "body" of work. Sometimes you have to scrutinize the works of those who believe in Him, to see His presence is overwhelmingly effective.

Then why don't you plainly answer the question, which not one among many RCs asked before have yet to do? Do you hold that one must believe (in the Real Presence) and receive the Eucharist in order to have life in them, and eternal life? Affirm or deny.

Any Catholic who would answer your question is overstepping his boundaries as a faith-filled servant of Jesus Christ. Hitler, John Wayne Gacy, and/or Margaret Sanger, could all be in heaven. This is the beauty of the Catholic faith. It's not our call, it's His.

That is really quite an escape. I began asking it because RCs regularly post those texts in asserting Jn 6. is speaking literal, but you come along and deny the certitude of of what must be the conclusion of such literalism, thus negating their argument.

So thank you for accomplishing what they are afraid of doing. .

What believing in the Real Presence and receiving the Eucharist WILL do for a person, is fill them with His strength and His power. Who wouldn't what that?

However, it manifestly does not. I am a former weekly serving RC, and have lived in a heavily RC area for over 60 years, and in addition have abundance of statistics , and the reality is that it is evangelical faith that effects manifest regeneration, while deadness and liberalism reigns where Rome does. Or blind zeal.