Has Romes Doctrine of Transubstantiation given rise to abominable superstitions and idolatrous abuses?
Yes. Revolting superstitions and idolatrous abuses have arisen out of the doctrine of Transubstantiation. For example, it has given rise to the Feast of Corpus Christi. Corpus Christi means ‘the body of Christ’, when the host is carried round as a god and is worshipped. Also revolting rules and dogmas have been laid down by Rome concerning the correct procedure should a fly or spider fall into the consecrated wine, or the priest vomit into the wine, or a mouse nibble the consecrated bread or host. ‘If any one shall say that Christ the only begotten Son of God is not to be adored in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, even with the open worship of lateria, and therefore not to be venerated with any peculiar festal celebrity nor to be solemnly carried about in processions according to the praiseworthy and universal rights and customs of the Holy Church, and that he has not to be publicly set before the people to be adored and that his adorers are idolaters, let him be accursed.’ As the
