No, in the 12 century Catholics took something long held as
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symbolic and borrowing from Platonic though on Forms came up with a doctrine where it is real flesh and blood in form, but can only be seen in the image of bread and wine. So while you are really eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking Jesus’ blood, you can only see it as bread and wine.
In essence, you are still teaching cannibalism.
“Having taken the bread and given it to His disciples, Jesus made it His own body, by saying, ‘This is My body,’ that is, the symbol of My body. There could not have been a symbol, however, unless there was first a true body. An empty thing or phantom is incapable of a symbol. He likewise, when mentioning the cup and making the new covenant to be sealed ‘in His blood,’ affirms the reality of His body. For no blood can belong to a body that is not a body of flesh” (Against Marcion, 4.40). - Tertullian
Catholics completely ignore the context that Irenaeus, Ignatius, Tertullian were writing in and that is against Docetism.