Two News Items

by Steve Ray on May 26, 2010

Jesuit head of Asian Catholic news agency criticizes transubstantiation
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6434
Stating that “Catholics can become fanatical about one form of the Body of Christ in the bread of the Eucharist as the REAL presence of Christ,” Father Michael Kelly, the Jesuit CEO of the Asian Catholic news agency UCA News, criticized the doctrine of transubstantiation in a May 24 column.

2.1 million pilgrims venerated Shroud
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6435
Over 2.1 million pilgrims, including Pope Benedict XVI, venerated the Shroud of Turin when it was on display in Turin’s cathedral between April 10 and May 23.