The Lateran Council which condemned him—and here is for me the crux of the matter—simply reversed the formula. It proclaimed that since Christ’s presence in the Eucharist is real, it is not “mystical.” What is truly decisive here is precisely the disconnection and the opposition of the two terms verum and mystice [“real” (lit. “true”) and “mystical”—Ed.], the acceptance, on both sides, that they are mutually exclusive.
