Pope calls for Sunday Legislation
A recent news article that appeared in the Detroit News on July 7, 1998, revealed the pope's stern call for Sunday legislation. The Pope was quoted as saying that a violator should be "punished as a heretic."

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"So perhaps we should consider enacting a Sunday Law. Not to restrict people from working, but to give liberty to those who can't choose. And imagine the tax dollars that would be saved".

There are many, even those engaged in this movement for Sunday enforcement, which are blinded to the results which will follow this action. They do not see that they are striking directly against religious liberty. There are many who have never understood the claims of the Bible Sabbath and the false foundation upon which the Sunday institution rest....

Those who are making an effort to change the Constitution and secure a law enforcing Sunday observance little realize what will be the result. A crisis is just upon us.-5T 711 (1889). Last day events page 126.

As the Sabbath has become the special point of controversy throughout Christendom and religious and secular authorities have combined to enforce the observance of the Sunday, the persistent refusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand will make them objects of universal execration.-GC 615 (1911). Last day events page. 137

When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result...

The enforcement of Sunday keeping on the part of protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship of the papacy...

In the very act of enforcing a religious duty by secular power, the churches would themselves form an image to the beast; hence the enforcement of Sunday keeping in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image. GC 445, 448, 449 (1911). Last day events page. 131

“CATHOLICISM SPEAKS”

“Sunday is a Catholic institution, and is claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles…From beginning to end of scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.”
“Catholic Press”, Sydney, Australia, August, 1900

“Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the Roman Catholic church, has not good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath”

John Gilmary Shea, in the “American Catholic Quarterly Review”, January 1883

“It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptist, Methodist, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday Is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe that day observe a commandment of the Catholic church”

Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, N.J “News” of March 18, 1903

“Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Catholic church power to institute festivals or precept (to command holy days)?”

“Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.”
Stephan Keenan, “A doctrinal Catechism” page 176

“Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.”

“God simply gave his (Catholic) Church the power to set aside whatever day or days, she would deem suitable as Holy Days.”

“The Catholic Mirror,” December 23, 1893

“We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” Peter Geirmann, CSSR, “A Doctrinal Catechism,” 1957 edition, page 50

“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty”

Pope Leo XIII, in an Encyclical Letter, dated June 20 1894

Not the Creator of the Universe, in Genesis 2:1-3, but the Catholic Church, “can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days”

S.D Mosna, “Storia della Domenica,” 1969, pages 366-367

"If protestants would follow the bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic church"
Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter dated February 10, 1920.

"We define that the Holy Apostolic See (the Vatican) and the Roman Pontiff holds the primacy over the whole world."
A decree of the Council of trent, quoted in Philipe labbe and Gabriel Cossart, "The Most Holy Councils," Volume 13, colum 1167
“The Catholic Mirror,” December 23, 1893

Sunday shopping baned in Croatia.

Croatian Shops to Be Closed on Sundays as of Jan. 1 in Concession to Catholic Church

ZAGREB, Croatia July 15, 2008 (AP)

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The Croatian parliament has passed a law forcing shops to close on Sundays in a concession to the Roman Catholic church.

The church has campaigned for years for Sundays to be devoted to family or Mass in Croatia, which is almost 90 percent Roman Catholic. But Croatians have begun spending weekends in shopping malls that have flourished across the country in the past few years and remain open seven days a week.

Coincident with the enacting of the Lisbon Treaty/EU constitution on December 1, Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the nation’s capital must, like the rest of the country, abide by the law instituting Sunday as a day “of rest from work and of spiritual improvement” (Deutsche Welle, December 1).

Since the war, Berlin had enacted its own legislation allowing 10 shopping Sundays per year. That local ruling is now quashed. Effective from Jan. 1, 2010, Berlin must fall into line with the law institutionalizing Sunday as a day of rest and religious contemplation as contained in Germany’s Basic Law.

The actual law establishing Sunday as Germany’s weekly day of worship is enshrined in an appendix to the Basic Law under the heading, “Extracts From the German Constitution of Aug. 11, 1919 [Weimar Constitution].” There we find, under the subhead “Religion and Religious Societies,” Article 139, which reads: “Sunday and holidays recognized by the state shall remain protected by law as days of rest from work and of spiritual improvement.”

Though, under that same section, Article 137 (1) states “There shall be no state church,” the effect of the Sunday law is to institutionalize Roman Catholicism and its daughter churches as Germany’s state religion.

Those aware of the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation will see this move by Germany’s highest court as one step further toward enforcing Rome’s religion, not only as the state religion on Germany, but on the whole European empire enacted by treaty on this infamous day, Dec. 1, 2009.