Can we use real bread at Mass?  By John Switzer| Print this
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Scripture and Theology  A seminary pal of mine once remarked
that he had no difficulty believing that Christ is present in
holy communion. What he did question was the proposition that it
was actually bread being used as a host.  Believe it or not, the
hosts we use at Mass qualify as “real bread,” but they aren’t
very good bread—at least not in any ordinary, earthly sense of
the word. In accordance with one particular tradition of Western
Christianity, canon law requires that the bread be unleavened
(made without yeast).