Davide Romano is the Director of the Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department for the Italian Union of Seventh-day Adventists. [1] He is also the President of the Italian Adventist University Villa Aurora. [2] On September 3, 2024, Hope Media Italia, the official news agency for the Italian Union, reported that the top Seventh-day Adventist religious liberty leader in Italy was pushing green eco-spirituality in a Roman Catholic monastery operated by St. Benedict monks.
The fact that PARL leaders around the world are engaged in so many other activities that they have no business doing is one of the reasons why their efforts to promote religious liberty are so ineffective. Pope Francis’s goal is to bring the various churches together to spread the green ecological gospel. This is one of the most important endeavors emphasized in Laudato Si’. Pope Francis is leading the way, urging people, including the religious communities, to fulfill their ecological obligations and become interconnected. But this is more than just addressing climate degradation; they are united in teaching the moral and spiritual aspects of protecting the Earth, including Adventist PARL leaders.
Hope Media Italia published the following:
• “Sustainability and environment in the foreground at the SAE (Ecumenical Training Session) Conference in Camaldoli, between ethics and spirituality.” [3]
• “One month before the end of the Ecumenical Training Session of the Sae (Secretariat for Ecumenical Activities), the echoes of the presentations and the days lived together are still alive in the participants. The Monastery of Camaldoli hosted, from July 28 to August 3, the sixtieth edition of this annual meeting. Christians of various denominations, Adventists, Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Orthodox, Pentecostals, Waldensians, participated along with some believers of other monotheistic and oriental religions.” [3]
• “The Pastor Davide Romano, director of the Adventist Institute of Florence and the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty of the Adventist Union (Uicca), was one of the two speakers of the panel ‘Ecospirituality between beauty and cry.’ In his presentation, entitled ‘As long as Lord? The cry of creatures, between dismay and hope,’ he began with a premise on the nature and limits of that discourse that says the otherness of God with respect to creation. He then stated: ‘We can speak of an ecospirituality because God’s dream is to live among his creatures. The incarnation is the model of identification with the earth, with the human and with the creature’.” [3]
• “Participation in the 2024 Session was defined as ‘multiple,’ at the end of the meetings, due to the presence of Protestants of various denominations, Orthodox, Catholics and representatives of other religions, from most Italian regions.” [3]
• “Various languages were used to deal with the subject: theology, environmental sciences, economics, law, ethics, good practices. There were different but convergent views on the divine and the world on the theme of care. In the assembly of participants, with many presences who expressed specific observations, the conference was appreciated as ‘a moment of great culture and great knowledge among people, especially at the tab, an opportunity to meet among different, which means wealth, characterized by a living prayer’.” [3]
Davide Romano talks about the ‘cry’ of the earth just as Pope Francis does in his climate encyclical (Sections 49, 53, and 117). This type of Eastern pantheism is in line with the core teaching of Laudato Si’. It is Rome that is pushing for a global response to care for our common home. This is opening the door to Mother Earth philosophies and demonic activity. They are mixing pagan spirituality with Christianity. The Omega of Apostasy is making its way into Adventism through interactions with theologians from Babylon. Why can’t our people see the danger with this? Mother Earth spiritualism under the cloak of environmentalism is causing our people to “seek them with familiar spirits” (Isaiah 8:19, 20). Our unwillingness to love and embrace the truths of our historic faith is causing us to embrace “strong delusions” and “lies” (2 Thessalonians 2:10, 11).
Rome is rapidly spreading its climate agenda and using this to bring her daughters home. Environmentalism has become the new universal religion of the world. Everyone is embracing Rome’s climate theology—Laudato Si’. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, spiritists, pantheists, and even secular humanists are coming together to solve the common global problem of saving planet Earth. This green pseudo-religion is replacing the biblical doctrines of the church.
According to the world, the great moral issues today are not the 10 Commandments, the judgment work in heaven, or the Second Coming of Jesus. It’s the environment, pollution and eco-justice. The new morality removes the emphasis of sin and obedience and shifts the burden to political activism, social organizing, ecumenism, and building bridges with the Vatican. When Seventh-day Adventists get involved in this, we quickly become a people who are losing our unique identity. We are fast becoming just another church among hundreds and thousands of religions in the world. Ecumenism, pantheism, interfaith relationships and spiritualism are the snares that Rome uses to unite the world.
The never-ending struggle for eco-justice will certainly trump the preaching of the Three Angels’ Message. Instead of preparing people for the coming of Christ so that they can be ready for that day, we are busy trying to create the perfect environmental utopian society for the coming New World Order.
“Our people need to be silent upon questions which have no relation to the third angel’s message” (Selected Message, Book 2, p. 336).
Sources
[1] https://www.adventistyearbook.org/entity?EntityID=13794
[2] https://www.adventistyearbook.org/entity?EntityID=13792&highlight=David%7CRomano
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