what is this all about?” Even if I’d asked these big questions, I don’t know that the people around me would have been able to clarify. Sometimes, the appeal of Catholicism seemed to be in the difficulty people had in understanding it. The bread and wine we took at communion wasn’t symbolic, it was actually the body and blood of Christ. It’s called transubstantiation, and it happens after the consecration, and you’ll need to look up both those words on your own. Even the structure of the organization felt complicated: the main boss is the pope, but there are cardinals and archbishops and
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