POPE LEO, 1888 AND THE PUSH FOR SUNDAY LAW
NEWS UPDATE - 13th May 2025
The new Pope Leo has revealed why he chose the name Leo and
it has a close connection with 1888 and the push for a Sunday law during the time of our pioneers. Take a look at the following news article regarding why the new
Pope chose the name Leo:
"Pope Leo XIV says he chose the name in honor of Leo XIII, connecting his predecessor's focus on workers during the industrial revolution to today's rise of AI ... Many of the previous Leos were reformers, including the last one, Pope Leo XIII, who was elected in 1878 ... He said Leo XIII's historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum on capital and labor was the primary reason he chose to go by Leo." (source)
So Pope Leo XIII was elected in 1878. And what rose up in America in 1888, under Leo's watch, during the time of our pioneers? The push for a Sunday law. God did put a stop to it, as it was not yet time for the Sunday law to be fully enacted around the world. But we can see the connection as to why the new Pope has taken the name Leo. The new pope even mentioned the Encyclical that Leo XIII wrote as to the primary reason he took the name. And Look at what the Encyclical "Rerum Novarum" contains:
"From this follows the obligation of the cessation from work and labor on Sundays and certain holy days. The rest from labor is not to be understood as mere giving way to idleness; much less must it be an occasion for spending money and for vicious indulgence, as many would have it to be; but it should be rest from labor, hallowed by religion. Rest (combined with religious observances) disposes man to forget for a while the business of his everyday life, to turn his thoughts to things heavenly, and to the worship which he so strictly owes to the eternal Godhead. It is this, above all, which is the reason arid motive of Sunday rest; a rest sanctioned by God's great law of the Ancient Covenant- 'Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day,' and taught to the world by His own mysterious 'rest' after the creation of man: 'He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done' ... Let the working man be urged and led to the worship of God, to the earnest practice of religion, and, among other things, to the keeping holy of Sundays and holy days. Let him learn to reverence and love holy Church, the common Mother of us all; and hence to obey the precepts of the Church." (source)
In a era of industrial revolution, when the plight of the working class cried out for justice, a voice rose from the Vatican, Pope Leo XIII. We are in another industrial revolution, touted as the fourth industrial revolution. An era of work, work, work, with little proper rest time, and where many are taken advantage of, with low wages and poor working conditions. So a new Pope rises to carry on the work of Leo XIII and maybe finally fulfil the desire of the Vatican in leading the world into a Sunday rest law. But remember, it is America that causes the world to worship Papal Rome and to take her mark. Will the fact that we now have the first American Pope in history be the sign and catalyst in bringing this about? We shall see. But the signs are there friends. We MUST prepare and be ready in Christ to face the final events of Bible prophecy.
Romans 13:12 ...'The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.'