text: Let me tell you about Marty Eble. No matter what you present him with, he will find a reason to reject it. About twenty years ago, on a now defunct Catholic blog, he and I got into an argument about transubstantiatation. He was saying that it was a synonym for "change", while I was saying it was a quite special sort of change. I quoted from both Thomas Aquinas and from Jaroslav Pelikan's History of the Development of Doctrine to prove my point. Eble insisted that he would only accept a definition from the Council of Trent. Of course, Trent gave no such definition, since everyone there knew what it meant. In other words, he asked for what he knew was an impossible citation, rather than admit he was wrong.