“You might 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.” Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of our Father, p. 89

“Sunday is our mark of authority… The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” Catholic Record, Sept 1, 1923

“The Bible says remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church.” American Sentinel, Father Enright, June 1893

“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday… not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church’s sense of its own power… People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep the Saturday holy.” Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, May 21, 1995

“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday… not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church’s sense of its own power… People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep the Saturday holy.” Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, May 21, 1995

“On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the “first day” of the new creation … It also proclaims “man’s eternal rest in God” … The law of weekly rest forbade work on the seventh day … Rest opens our eyes to the larger picture and gives us renewed sensitivity to the rights of others. And so the day of rest, centred on the Eucharist, sheds it light on the whole week, and motivates us to greater concern for nature and the poor.” Section 237, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

“But all that credit – all worthy – I have to say, the most special credit today goes to His Holiness, because Pope Francis has now defined our mission – our common mission – in terms I don’t think we’ve ever seen before. The way he has combined the global fight against inequality with the global fight against the problems of climate change has been so clear, so morally sound, so urgent, that it is changing hearts and minds constantly and rapidly.  (…) But Pope Francis has changed that equation profoundly – arguably the most important moral voice – in my view, absolutely the most important moral voice in the world – pulling people urgently towards these twin missions and looking at how they in fact go together seamlessly. (…) The fact that the greatest moral voice in the world, Pope Francis, is calling us to action gives us [political leaders] hope.” Mayor de Blasio (New York) September 24, 2015

“I welcome his holiness Pope Francis’ encyclical and deeply admire the Pope’s decision to make the case clearly and powerfully and with the full moral authority of his position for action on global climate change. (…) And as we prepare for global climate negotiations in Paris this December, it is my hope that all world leaders—and all God’s children—will reflect on Pope Francis’s call to come together to care for our common home.” President Barack Obama, June 17, 2015, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-environment-obama/obama-praises-pope-francis-for-making-case-on-climate-change-idUSKBN0OY2QT20150618

“Holy Father, you remind us that we have a sacred obligation to protect our planet – God’s magnificent gift to us,” he added. “We support your call to all world leaders to support the communities most vulnerable to a changing climate and to come together to preserve our precious world for future generations.” President Barack Obama, September 23, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/pope-francis-climate-change-white-house-speech

“I think he [the Pope] wrote this encyclical, which is one of the most important things in the climate change history, so to speak. Basically, spreading the gospel that we should care about the planet we live in. It’s a sin to destroy our planet, (…) So he’s been inspiring and revolutionary to come out and be outspoken about the issue of climate change and endorse the scientific community.” Leonardo DiCaprio, UN Messenger of Peace, Jan 30, 2016, https://people.com/awards/sag-awards-2016-leonardo-dicaprio-says-meeting-the-pope-was-great/

”In respecting religious liberty and the common good of all, Christians should seek recognition of Sundays and the Church’s holy days as legal holidays.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church Section 2 Article 3, 1994, https://w2.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a3.htm

“The State Department, under President Trump, has made religious freedom a true priority for this administration,” 
“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Pope Francis and the Catholic Church have a “central role” in promoting religious liberty.”
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2018/07/23/u-s-secretary-of-state-says-catholic-church-has-central-role-in-fight-for-religious-freedom/

“‘Every cardinal, archbishop, and bishop in the Catholic Church takes an oath of allegiance to the pope, in which occur the following words: ‘Heretic, schismatics, and rebels to our said lord (the pope), or his aforesaid successors, I will to my utmost persecute and oppose.'” Josiah Strong, in “Our Country,” ch. 5, pars 2-4

Says Bishop O’Connor: ‘Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world.’ GC, p. 562. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/132.2545#2557

“The current pope does not seem to think that personal conscience is important for religious freedom: The orderly development of “a civil, pluralistic society requires” that the “authentic spirit of  religion” not be “confined” to “personal conscience but that its significant role in the construction of society is recognized,” said Pope Francis in his remarks to the Italian president.” From the Vatican radio. 

“Catholic teaching does not always forbid death peanalty, it is okey if it is for the common good: “Therefore if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good.” https://catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2017/05/16/lets-be-honest-catholic-teaching-doesnt-always-forbid-the-death-penalty/

”The Office of International Religious Freedom has the mission of promoting religious freedom as a core objective of U.S. foreign policy. The office is headed by the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Samuel D. Brownback. We monitor religious persecution and discrimination worldwide, recommend and implement policies in respective regions or countries…” https://www.state.gov/j/drl/irf/

“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-9 

“A power from beneath is working to bring about the last great scenes in the drama–Satan coming as Christ, and working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who are binding themselves together in secret societies.” 8T 28, 1904

“The church of Rome condemns secret societies, while at the same time it is itself the most secret of all secret societies.  … This is a part of the grand policy of the church to control the mass. She proposes to get a “corner” on the whole secret society business and control it to accomplish her grand scheme for the supremacy of the world.” AMS January 10 1895. p 10.17 & 18

“In the revelation of His righteous judgments, God will break up all these associations; and when the judgment shall sit and the books be opened, there will be revealed the un-Christlikeness of the whole confederacy. Those who choose to unite with these secret societies are paying homage to idols as senseless and as powerless to bless and save the soul as are the gods of the Hindus.” 2SM 131.2

“These societies offer some advantages which from a human point of view appear like great blessings, but not so when judged by the Lord’s measurement. Behind their apparent advantages are concealed satanic agencies. The larger the income drawn into the treasury, the more and deeper is the evil. The ungodly gain which has enriched these societies will, when traced out in all its bearings, be seen to be a curse. The words which Eliphaz spoke to Job are true in respect to these associations: “I saw him ‘taking root,’ but I ‘cursed his habitation’” (Job 5:3). They are Satan’s traps, his net to entangle souls.” 2sm 131:3

I have been permitted to look in upon these secret societies, their feasts, their order, their works, and my prayer has been, “Hide them from my sight forever. Let me not understand more.” One thing I do know, that those who remain in connection with them will be burned up with the bundles of tares, one with them in the last day. Lt113-1893.23

“She went on a little longer, and told him that she had heard him addressed as “Worshipful Master” and other names or titles of that nature. She talked of Free Masonry and the impossibility of a man’s being a Free Mason and a Seventh-day Adventist at the same time. Once more she made a certain movement that she said her attending angel had made to her. Again Mr. Faulkhead was startled and turned deathly pale. “Sister White, do you know what you have done? No woman knows that. No woman is ever allowed to hear or see what is going on in those meetings, and yet you have described a particular meeting in which I took a very important part, and you have told not only what I said, but what I did.” 
I am very thankful to our gracious heavenly Father that He has given you strength through His imparted grace to cut yourself loose from the Free Mason lodge and all that relates to the society. It was not safe for you to have any part with this secret order. Those who stand under the blood-stained banner of Prince Immanuel cannot be united with the Free Masons or with any secret organization. The seal of the living God will not be placed upon anyone who maintains such a connection after the light of truth has shone upon his pathway. Christ is not divided, and Christians cannot serve God and mammon. The Lord says, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, … and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and My daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”—Letter 21, 1893.