Reese is anathema

“Since my critics often accuse me of heresy, before I go further, let me affirm that I believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. I just don’t believe in transubstantiation because I don’t believe in prime matter, substantial forms and accidents that are part of Aristotelian metaphysics.” Thomas J. Reese, SJ “The Eucharist is about More than the Real Presence”, National Catholic Reporter, Jan. 31, 2023.

Reese makes a variety of other outrageous assertions in the article. Outside the confessional, who is he to tell me what to believe or how to live? With the exception of the Francis addition declaring capital punishment immoral, the catechism is my guide. The Baltimore is the easiest.

​​Reese was in formation when he was teaching at my high school. He was an attention-seeker, and some boys flocked around him. My rank was 33rd of 250. Nevertheless, my wits let me know when a trickster came into view.

Now I know he is anathema. In the New Testament an anathema is a person or thing condemned by God.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.  9 As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.

Reese went on to say:
​“Thomas Aquinas used Aristotelianism, the avant-garde philosophy of his time, to explain the Eucharist to his generation. What worked in the 13th century will not work today. If he were alive today, he would not use Aristotelianism because nobody grasps it in the 21st century.”

What an unbelievably condescending thing to say to us, but his aim is not to talk down to us. The political animal based in D.C. wants to keep the perks of an easy life.

Council of Trent
​“If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist there are truly, really, and substantially contained the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, but shall say that He is in it as by a sign or figure, or force, let him be anathema.

“If anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist there remains the substance of bread and wine together with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the entire substance of the wine into the blood, the species of the bread and wine only remaining, a change which the Catholic Church most fittingly calls transubstantiation: let him be anathema.
(Council of Trent, Session 13, Chapter 4 and Canons 1 and 2; Denz. 877, 883-884.)
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​https://novusordowatch.org/2023/02/jesuit-tom-reese-denies-transubstantiation/
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Reese asserted in the same rag (National Catholic Reporter) that climate change is the "No. 1 pro-life issue" facing the Catholic Church today.

Council of Trent documents:
​www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/trent/twenty-second-session.htm​