It appears that the Roman Church, based on the evidence developed from the Vatican’s own archives, claims the authority to change the Saturday to Sunday. Further, officials of the Roman Church have in the past been bold in their claim that anyone who observes Sunday has acknowledged the authority of Rome to have made the change.
The following is from:
ROME’S CHALLENGE: Why Do Protestants Keep Sunday?
Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Roman Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.
Over one hundred years ago the Catholic Mirror ran a series of articles discussing the right of the Protestant churches to worship on Sunday. The articles stressed that unless one was willing to accept the authority of the Catholic Church to designate the day of worship, the Christian should observe Saturday. Those articles are presented here in their entirety.
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from: http://biblelight.net/chalng.htm
Of course, the argumentation is flawed — unless one is willing to accept alternate views to that held by the Popes of Rome as to where the Catholic Church inheres. We Orthodox Christians, will, of course dispute the catholicity of those in communion with the Papal Throne of Rome, and claim for ourselves the title of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church (cf. the Reply of the Eastern Patriarchs of 1848), and likewise the monophysites (Copts, Jacobites and Armenians) and the Nestorians (the Assyrian Church of the East) will claim to be the catholic church spoken of in St. Ignatius of Antioch’s letters.
All of us worship on Sunday (in Greek Kyriake = the Lord’s Day), and have done so from long before the Popes of Rome started claiming universal jurisdiction (which claim those of us in the East largely ignored, even when Rome was still in communion with us), cf. the testimony of the Didache, St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Justin the Philosopher (called in the West “Justin Martyr”). As the Synaxarion of Pascha I posted earlier testifies, it was the Holy Apostles to transferred the dignity of the sabbath to the Lord’s Day, not the later local council of Laodicea as the Latins seem to claim — the earlier dating agrees with the fact that St. Ignatius of Antioch and the Didache both speak of Sunday worship as a well established fact over a century before Laodicea.
“Over one hundred years ago the Catholic Mirror ran a series of articles discussing the right of the Protestant churches to worship on Sunday. The articles stressed that unless one was willing to accept the authority of the Catholic Church to designate the day of worship, the Christian should observe Saturday. Those articles are presented here in their entirety.”
Wow - so Catholicism really thinks it has the authority to tell all Christians when to worship? Unbelievable. For the record, I do not “accept the authority of the Catholic Church...” Scripture, yes...Catholic Church, no.