Interesting isn't it?
Out there people are ridiculing us for thinking Sunday will be legislated etc. etc.
Yet we have this:
http://www.europeansundayalliance.eu/site/law/article/68.html" Inspired by the success of the first conference for the protection of a work-free Sunday in March 2010 in the European Parliament (cf. europeinfos no. 127), the idea was quickly born among the supporters at that time to establish a European platform for the protection of Sunday and decent working hours. They want to introduce the European Sunday Alliance to the public in the framework of an experts' conference concerning the revision of the Working Time Directive on 20 June 2011 in the EESC in Brussels. The representatives of interests who have combined within the alliance either as members or as supporters consider that a work-free Sunday and decent working hours are highly beneficial for citizens throughout Europe and "that all citizens of the European Union have the right to decent working hours which, as a matter of principle, excludes late evenings, nights, legal holidays and Sundays from core working hours." In their opinion, "legislation and practice at EU and at Member State level [should] guarantee better protection of the health, safety and dignity of each individual and pay more attention to promoting the reconciliation of professional and family life." (cf. the founding Statement).
Europe is the homeland of the papacy, right now she can voice herself more loudly on the Sunday issue there. It is working hard in it's homeland. Yet this "work free Sunday" issue has come up before in Europe. Working Time Directive of 23 November 1993 made provision in Article 5 for a minimum weekly rest period, which "shall in principle include Sunday". On 12 November 1996 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) annulled this provision. The Court found "that the Council has failed to explain why Sunday, as a weekly rest day, is more closely connected with the health and safety of workers than any other day of the week."
The papacy does not take "no" for an answer however, and it just keeps coming up again and again and again. And of course the people in the USA hear about, they hear the arguments, they think about it, and a lot of them think "that sounds good".
