With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Revelation 17:2
"Even though Pope Francis’ climate change encyclical, Laudato Si’,
promotes Sunday as the day of rest in Section #237, this is nothing new.
Sunday is part of the wine of Babylon, and this is what Pope Francis
has been promoting from day one of his pontificate, even without Laudato
Si’.
The New York Times also revealed that Pope Francis is doing what the Evangelicals used to do – promote Sunday rest:
“Pope Francis replies: “Together with a culture of work,
there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another
way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their
families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. But this is being destroyed, in large part, by the elimination of the Sabbath rest day. More and more people work on Sundays
as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.”
In such cases, he concludes, “work ends up dehumanizing people.”
“Catholic social teaching is known for promoting the idea that
workers deserve dignity, which includes rest. But Pope Francis seems to
be saying something more: that an authentically Christian life includes a
proper dose of leisure and family time … The idea of a Catholic exalting the Sabbath sounds particularly peculiar in the American context. In the United States, Catholics were never the great proponents of Sabbatarianism, observing Sunday as a special day, for worship or rest. That was a Protestant thing.”
“From the moment the Puritans arrived, they began enforcing laws to
reserve Sunday for churchgoing. Over time, what came to be called “blue
laws” covered different activities, and varied by state.”
“But in Catholicism, as Pope Francis suggests, the Sabbath actually is supposed to matter — the whole day, not just Mass.”
“The Catholic Church has been recovering this teaching at least since 1998, when Pope John Paul II published his apostolic letter “Dies Domini.” AdventMessenger