ROME'S CHALLENGE
Why Do Protestants Keep Sunday?
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Most Christians assume that Sunday is the
biblically approved day of worship. The Roman Catholic Church protests that it
transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday,
and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both
dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base
its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.
Over one hundred years ago the Catholic Mirror
ran a series of articles discussing the right of the Protestant churches
to worship on Sunday. The articles stressed that unless one was willing to
accept the authority of the Catholic Church to designate the day of worship,
the Christian should observe Saturday. Those articles are presented here in
their entirety.
Photo copyright 1914 by Underwood & Underwood
James Cardinal Gibbons
Archbishop of Baltimore Maryland (1877-1921)
These articles, therefore, although not written by
the Cardinal's own hand, appeared under his official sanction, and as the
expression of the Papacy to Protestantism, and the demand of the Papacy that
Protestants shall render to the Papacy an account of why they keep
Sunday and also of how they keep it.
The following matter (excepting the footnotes, the
editor's note in brackets beginning on page 25 and ending on page 27, and the
two Appendixes) is a verbatim reprint of these editorials, including the title
on page 2.
*Notre
Dame University has the relevant
issues of the Catholic Mirror archived on microfilm.
Web site for the *Archdiocese
of Baltimore Maryland, which published the Catholic Mirror.
