Admissions from Catholic Sources About Sunday Observance
1. Catholic Church’s Claim to the Authority Over Sabbath Change
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“Sunday is our MARK of authority… the church is ABOVE the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.”
– Catholic Record of London, Ontario, Sept 1, 1923 -
“Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [Saturday Sabbath to Sunday] was her act… And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.” This change came from the evil Linus whom the Lord Jesus Christ revealed and identified as the beast of revelation 13:5-18, who staged his own falling away from the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ when this evil Linus was a disciple in the ministry of the apostle Paul in 2nd Timothy 4:21. Who made himself as the first bishop of Rome and elevated himself as the first Pope and the ever first antichrist. All these you have read in the articles of Antichrists revealed by our Lord Jesus Christ earlier
– H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons -
“The [Roman Catholic] Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ.” This was the biggest lie ever told by the antichrists, because Jesus Christ did not give them the authority to change His 7th day Sabbath
– Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, p. 4 -
“There is but one church on the face of the earth which has the power, or claims power, to make laws binding on the conscience… For instance, the institution of Sunday… It was the evil Linus, who started the apostasy, which he named as the holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday, the seventh day, to Sunday, the first day of the week.”
– T. Enright, C.S.S.R., 1893 -
“Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holydays? Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of…”
– Henry Tuberville, An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, 1833, p. 58
2. Protestant Acknowledgment of Catholic Authority (by Sunday Observance)
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“Protestants do not realize that by observing Sunday, they accept the authority of the spokesperson of the Church, Linus the first ever bishop of Rome and the first ever Pope.”
– Our Sunday Visitor, Feb 5, 1950 -
“If Protestants would follow the Bible, they would 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, Feb 10, 1920 -
“The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] Church.”
– Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, p. 213 -
“Reason and 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.”
– John Cardinal Gibbons, The Catholic Mirror, Dec 23, 1893
3. Catechisms and Church Teachings on the Change
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Q: Which is the Sabbath day? A: Saturday is the Sabbath day, which all the antichrists believed but do not follow because they rebelled against our Lord Jesus Christ Himself
Q: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? A: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the evil Linus, who made himself as the first bishop of Rome and thereby elevated himself to the first pope of the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
– Rev. Peter Geiermann, The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50 -
“If we consulted the Bible only, we should still have to keep holy the Sabbath Day, that is, Saturday, with the Jews, instead of Sunday…”
– Rev. John Laux M.A., A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools, 1936 -
“Sunday is a Catholic institution, and… 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, Aug. 25, 1900
4. Admissions in Catholic Publications
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“You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday…”
– James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers, 88th ed., p. 89 -
“The Church designated Sunday as the day for corporate worship and gets full credit—or blame—for the change.”
– This Rock, Catholic Apologetics Magazine, June 1997, p. 8 -
“Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been forced to us by the Church outside the Bible.”
– The Catholic Virginian, Oct. 3, 1947, Vol. 22, No. 49
5. Doctrinal Statements from Clergy and Church Writings
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“They should, if the Scripture were their only rule… keep, not the Sunday, but the Saturday, according to the commandment…”
– Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism, 1857, pp. 101, 174, 181 -
“They reject much that is clearly contained in Scripture, and profess more that is nowhere discoverable in that Divine Book.”
– A Doctrinal Catechism, p. 101 -
“The Pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine law…” Because all the Popes or antichrists are being ruled by Satan their father
– Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, Vol. VI, p. 29 -
“Tradition, not Scripture, is the rock on which the church of Jesus Christ is built.”
– Adrien Nampon, Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent, p. 157
6. Historical Observations and Symbolism
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“The pagan Sunday… became the Christian Sunday, sacred to the apostasy Roman Catholic Churches.”
– William Gildea, The Catholic World, March 1894, p. 809 -
“The retention of the old pagan name of Dies Solis… is owing to the union of pagan and Christian sentiment…”
– Arthur P. Stanley, History of the Eastern Church, p. 184 -
“Pastoral intuition suggested to the Church the christianization of the notion of Sunday as ‘the day of the sun’…”
– John Paul II, Dies Domini, 1998 -
“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century… not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church’s sense of its own power.”
– Sentinel, Pastor’s Page, Saint Catherine Catholic Church, May 21, 1995
The Key Question from the Catholic Church to Protestants:
“You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet… you go against the plain letter of the Bible… Who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth commandment?… If you really follow the Bible… you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered.”
— Library of Christian Doctrine: Why Don’t You Keep Holy the Sabbath-Day?, pp. 3–4
Final Thoughts
The Bible clearly identifies Saturday as the 7 th day Sabbath. There is no scriptural support for Sunday as a day of worship. Yet, as shown above, Catholic sources openly acknowledge they instituted Sunday observance, not the Bible.
Who changed God’s law?
Not God. Not the Apostles. But evil Linus, who staged his own falling away from the truth of Christ and made himself the first bishop of Rome and elevated himself to the position of the first pope of Rome, through the Catholic Church.
The question remains:
Will you follow the clear teaching of Scripture, or the traditions of men? When God says, in Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that Goethe forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where to I sent it.
Scripture to Reflect On:
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Daniel 7:25 — “He shall speak great words against the most High… and think to change times and laws.”
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Revelation 22:14–15 — “Blessed are they that do his commandments… For without are… whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”
