Here are some really interesting quotes from Roman Catholic scholars concerning the keeping of Shabbat that contradict, or otherwise further confuse, the views that we looked at yesterday.
1) "Protestants who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man. We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us... We accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday... It is always somewhat laughable, to see Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, for which there is nothing in their Bible."
Peter Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Society 1975
2) "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, "Faith of Our Fathers" 1917
3) "Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday. Now the Church instituted, by God’s authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible (New Testament) was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday."
Martin Scott, "Things Catholics are Asked About" 1927
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