History's Biggest Food Fight: What Catholics Believe about the Eucharist

They escorted him to the pulpit of St. Mary’s University Church in Oxford, for one last time before his execution, to read out his recantation of his Protestant faith. Instead, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer made this ringing declaration:

As for the sacrament, I believe as I have taught in my book against the bishop of Winchester, which my book teacheth so true a doctrine of the sacrament, that it shall stand in the last day before the judgment of God, where the papistical doctrines contrary thereto shall be ashamed to show their face.

Pandemonium ensued. Cranmer was hauled down and dragged to the stake to be burnt, one of hundreds of martyrs in Queen Mary’s Counter-Reformation.

What was this “true doctrine of the sacrament” worth dying (and killing) for? What were the “papistical doctrines” that Cranmer was convinced would not stand before God’s judgment seat? Read More

Also See:
The Reformers’ Doctrine of the Holy Communion
Thomas Cranmer’s ‘True and Catholick Doctrine of the Sacrament’
A Defence of the true and Catholick doctrine of the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Saviour Christ: with a confutation of Sundry errors concerning the same