Do just one-third of American Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, as was reported in this 2019 study? Or do two-thirds believe Church teaching on the Eucharist, if you question them more carefully as was done in this 2023 study?
Either way, faithful Catholics who attend Mass regularly didn’t need surveys to tell them that many American Catholics don’t believe in the Real Presence. Those who don’t believe make it obvious enough in the way they arrive late, leave early, and simply fail to show up for Sunday Mass. Our bishops’ call for a Eucharistic Revival, culminating in a National Eucharistic Congress in July, 2024, was certainly an attempt to remind Catholics that Jesus Christ is truly present, not merely symbolically present, in the Blessed Sacrament.
But there’s more than one way to communicate supernatural truths to disbelieving people than to hold a meeting or post a website. In 1531, God’s way involved sending the Blessed Mother to Mexico—through an apparition, of course.