The Roman Catholic church is the only church that believes Jesus is truly present in the bread and wine? ?

To answer your specific question: no, the Roman Catholic Church is not the only Church that believes that Jesus is truly present in the bread and wine. As pointed out by other posters, as a matter of doctrine, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, as well as Anglicans/Episcopalians and some Lutherans also believe in the real presence of our Lord.

As a matter of piety, the following incident demonstrates how difficult it is to answer your question.

I was once a guest at a "candlelight communion service" in a non-denominational and very fundamental evangelical Christian Church. Except for the prayer to the Holy Spirit to make the gifts the body and blood of the Lord, the rest of the communion service was closer to the Orthodox Liturgy (and I should say the Catholic Mass) than to a Baptist rite of communion. The important thing was that the minister and the congregation took the words of Christ seriously ("Take and eat, this is my body" and "This is my blood of the Covenant") and to them Christ was indeed present. They did not worry about how this thing could be, they just believed in the mystery.

Regarding Catholics being unique, they certainly are, but not because of the reasons that you cite. They do not uniquely possess apostolic succession. They do not uniquely trace themselves back to Jesus. Finally, The Roman Catholic Church of today is a far cry from the Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church of the Nicene-Constantinople Creed. I'll explain: While the RCC shares its historical roots with the Orthodox Church, it has departed in significant ways from the theology and ecclesiology of the undivided Christian Church. The Orthodox Church by and large has not.

No, the Catholic Church is not the only church that believes this. The Catholic Church may be the only major church that believes specifically in transubstantiation, but even the Catholic Church does not require this specific belief, for it to consider a church's Eucharist valid (the Eastern Orthodox do not believe in transubstantiation but are considered valid by Catholics).

The Eastern Orthodox, Assyrian, and Polish National Catholic churches all believe that Jesus is truly present, and the Catholic Church recognizes their apostolic succession as valid.

Some Anglicans believe that Jesus is truly present, but the Catholic Church does not recognize their apostolic succession. Even if their succession were generally valid, large numbers of Anglican priests have been "ordained" by female "bishops," so there are big problems for apostolic succession in Anglicanism.

Lutherans believe that Jesus is truly present; but unlike Catholics, we believe that the authority to celebrate the Eucharist is contained in the words of Jesus Himself and such authority exists wherever His Word is validly taught. Apostolic succession, for Lutherans, is a human institution which may arguably be of value. It has has been retained in the Swedish church, but according to Catholics, the Council of Trent invalidated this succession (and the Swedish church also has the female ordination problem).

One more note: Someone said Lutherans believe in consubstantiation. This is not true. Consubstantiation is the idea that the bread and wine are mixed together with Jesus' body and blood; and I don't know of any modern church that believes this. There is a lot of confusion about this: Some non-Lutherans accused us of believing it, and some ill-informed Lutherans heard the accusation and thought it to be true. Now you can find poorly researched Lutheran web sites and literature that use this word, but the authors would not use it if they knew what it actually meant.

>>Only in the Roman Catholic faith we truly believe Jesus in present in the Eucharist, and that all other Christian religions, the communion and wine are just symbols of Jesus. is that correct?<<

No, that's not correct. As the USCCB statement notes, "Members of the Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Polish National Catholic Church are urged to respect the discipline of their own Churches. According to Roman Catholic discipline, the Code of Canon Law does not object to the reception of communion by Christians of these Churches (canon 844 § 3)", since they believe the same as us.

If you want to receive communion with God then you read the Bible. The bread of life is in the Word. Jesus blood is representative of the wine which is the salvation He provided for you. His body is the bread which is scripture. There is no religious symbolism that we are asked to ritualize in any part of the New Testament except to study scripture and pray. In everything the Catholic "church" takes and obliterates the Word of God and twists it to meet their needs in order to grasp and cling to the self proclaimed authority in their establishment but in truth...the Word of God was given for all mankind, but as predicted in Rev 11 the apostate church took the two witnesses of the Old and New Testaments and trampled them under foot for a very long time while suppressing it and oppressing those that would seek to have access to it. Communion is reading the Bible..."Do this in remembrance of me..." Jesus is our priest, we don't need icons, Mary isn't alive for us to pray to because no one lives again until the resurrection, there is no purgatory, there is no such thing as the "vicar of christ" and no wafer offered on the tongue becomes the flesh of our Lord and Savior once consumed. Just study the scriptures of the King James version and you will see...He is there. Not in some wafer made by man from ingredients any of us can buy at a store. That's just crazy. Love in Christ, ~J~

The Eastern Orthodox Church does, however "Protestants" as a group see it as symbolic. I can tell you as a Lutheran that we do not see Communion as an act of transubstantiation.

Historically, the RCC and the Orthodox, Russian, etc. denominations make the center of their worship service the Eucharist.

And every bit of it is unscriptural which you will discover if you read the Bible!

Try Matthew 13: 55 and 56 first, that'll blow your precious Catholic beliefs to pieces!

Mat 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Mat 13:56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

Or how about 1 Tim 3:1 to 3?

1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

1Ti 3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

Lutherans sort of believe Christ is present. See the link for a discussion.

Not all of them. Orthodoxes, Lutherans and some Anglicans do as well. The only problem with the Lutherans and Anglicans is that they don't think a Catholic priest can do it.

Yes, everything you have stated is true. Very well stated if I do say so myself!

However, the RCC is not the only Christian faith that holds this belief (as other answerers have stated).

The Roman Catholic Church is NOT the only church that believes in the real presence of Christ in Holy Communion. There are many Christian denominations that hold Apostolic Succession and believe Christ is truly present in Holy Mass. To name a few, the Episcopal Church and the entire world wide Anglican Communion, all of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, and many Old or Independent Catholic denominations such as the Polish National Catholic Church or the Unity Catholic Church. The Roman Church would like you to believe that they are the only "Catholics", but they are not. They do not hold the monopoly on Catholicism. The word catholic simply means "universal". Anglicans, Orthodox, and others are also "catholic". They are all members of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

-Fr. David Laneski, SGS