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Current 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1990s 1980s     June/July 2004 To Belie The Obvious TruthJAMES LARSON"It has never been asserted that, so to say, nature in a physical sense is being changed. The transformation reaches down to a more profound level. Tradition has it that this is a metaphysical process. Christ lays hold upon what is, from a purely physical viewpoint, bread and wine, in its inmost being, so that it is changed from within and Christ truly gives himself in them." [Cardinal Ratzinger, God and the World, Believing and Living in Our Time, p.408 – all...