CATHOLIC LEADERS SAY THEY ARE THE ONES WHO STARTED SUNDAY WORSHIP AND NOT GOD! The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ. The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ. Decretal, de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap. (The Pope can modify divine law.) Ferraris Ecclesiastical Dictionary. The Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church. American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883 Sunday...It is the law of the Catholic Church alone... American Sentinel (Catholic) June 1893 The Catholic church, declared Cardinal Gibbons, by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. Catholic Mirror Sept. 23 1983. (Official organ of Cardinal Gibbons) The Pope is of great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws... The Pope can MODIFY divine law, since his power is not of man, But of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth. -Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Ribliotheca, Papa, art. 2, translated. The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority. Canon and Tradition, p. 263 Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify. -James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73. The Catholic church, declared Cardinal Gibbons, by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. Catholic Mirror Sept. 23 1983. (Official organ of Cardinal Gibbons)
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