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CATHOLICISM: WE CHANGED THE SABBATH
Source: Wikipedia Encyclopedia
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the early Church met on Sunday according to its own authority and not on the basis of any Scriptural mandate to do so.
Keenan's Doctrinal Catechism, a Catholic Catechism, declares that there is no scriptural basis for first day observance:
"Q: Have you any other way of proving that the [Roman] Church has power to institute festivals?
A: Had she not such power she could not have instituted one in which all modern religionists agree with her - she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week. A change for which there is no Scriptural authority"