Catholic church backs trade ban on Sundays

The Polish Episcopate will back the initiative of Poland's Solidarity trade union to bring legislation to parliament that will ban trade on Sundays, archbishop Stanisław Gądecki said. "A voice of dissent is needed against the exploitation of workers," he said. The clergyman said that independent of religious affiliation, everybody has a right to time off.  "A society that can not rest has no time to devote to the family. Therefore, it is destroying the base of the family and then of the whole society. And that's why we want to encourage both religious associations and communities to participate in the collection of signatures, also by all people of good will," Gądecki said. On April 28, the Solidarity trade union established a committee for collecting signatures for banning trade on Sundays.