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The lesser way to get answers to your(his) sincere theological questions is to catch a parish priest's ear while he's trying to get something done as you chat. And so you get a half-listening priest getting caught off-guard by your logic. I read here a non-Catholic's misunderstanding of common Catholic-defined words. "Representing"; is not what he said, "re-presenting"; is how he pronounced it - BIG DIFFERENCE. Like - We don't worship Mary, we venerate her. It's not a NEW sacrifice of Christ, it's the SAME sacrifice as 2000 (or 1800) years ago, happening right there before us, not "again", but "here as well"(yes, daily, in every church in the world - how about THAT for a daily miracle and a mystery that requires the grace of Faith!) We're Americans in this church, but the Jews and Romans were there in the Middle East back then. Our sin caused Him to die, each of our's sin, and my great great grandkids’ sin (and at their masses then). And that is why we chew in part the Eucharist - Jesus said unless we gnaw on His flesh, we shall not enter....- remember, many walked away from Him and He didn't say "oh, I was using a metaphor" - no, He repeated it! "Give us this day, our daily bread"; is not a request for earthly food - the whole prayer is a spiritual request for grace. If he wanted answers to show Romanism was a fraud and to use that detail to show the world, he would be smarter to have given the priest a seat and waited thoughtfully to give the man as much time as he needed to properly explain the answer = then confirmed those answers with a Catholic theologean. Wouldn't I do that before I told the world say that a Protestant faith was in serious error? Or he could ask a busy man not for an appointment to sit and really focus on a point, but see his halting to explain a theological point of importance as feebleness of the entire worldwide Roman Catholic Church, when in reality the priest might have been looking for the words to explain such to a non-Catholic's interpretation of his words (re-presenting, for example = it's happening here, not "again", but ALSO, today as every day for the last 1800 years and will for 1800 more even, and in every church the world over). Does that explanation make you halt and hesitate a moment to comprehend - but you are not feeble, nor in error, just coming to grasp what was just said - Correct? GBU.