JOHN WATERS wrote tellingly in The Irish Times last Friday that he would personally find it difficult to discuss transubstantiation with his best friend, “not because I have problems with the doctrine but because such matters are impossible to discuss in the language we use for politics, shopping and sex”.

His article carried the excellent headline: “Belief in transubstantiation not a matter of yes or no”. In view of the celebration of the Eucharistic Congress, it is timely to consider for a moment a term that might be used unthinkingly and perhaps unwisely during the congress.

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