Rome's Challenge: Why Do Protestants Keep Sunday? (Catholic Mirror 1893)

**Introduction_(00:00) ***Catholic Mirror of Sept. 2, 1893_(01:37) **Sept. 9, 1893_(10:11) Sept. 16, 1893_(20:34) **Sept. 23, 1893_(34:07) ***CONCLUSION_(42:14) ***EDITORS NOTE_(49:59) ***APPENDIX I_(55:54) ***APPENDIX II_(1:01:44)

What is Rome's Challenge? ___ "The Protestant World claims to be followers of the Bible and the Bible Only - The Observance of Sunday is entirely a Catholic institution and not in any way based on the Bible - The claims of Protestantism to Any Part (in Sunday Observance) Therein Proved to Be Groundless, Self-Contradictory, and Suicidal. - The Catholic Church states that the only group to truly follow the Bible are Seventh-day Adventists, because they observe the Sabbath on Saturday" http://romeschallenge.com/ - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chr...

________Quotes from other Catholic sources________

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday] was her act . . and the act is a MARK of her authority in religious things." (From the office of Cardinal Gibbons, through Chancellor H.F. Thomas, November 11, 1895)

"The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an 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)

"QUESTION: How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days? ANSWER: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of, and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church. QUESTION: How prove you that? ANSWER: Because BY KEEPING SUNDAY they ACKNOWLEDGE THE CHURCH'S POWER to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin." (The Douay Catechism, p. 59.)

"Father" Thomas Enright, former president of Redemptorist College in Kansas City, Missouri, issued a number of public statements in which he challenged anyone to produce just one text of Scripture stating that the Seventh-day Sabbath had been changed to Sunday. And he promised to give them $1000 if they would show the Bible passage to him.

The Hartford (Kansas) "Weekly Call," of February 22, 1884, published his challenge:

" 'I will give $1,000 to any man who will prove by the Bible alone that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep. . The observance of Sunday is solely a law of the Catholic Church ..The church changed the Sabbath to Sunday and all the world bows down and worships upon that day in silent obedience to the mandates of the Catholic Church." Hartford "Weekly Call," quoting Priest Thomas Enright, C.S.S.R., February 22, 1884.