The truth is finally coming out. The ultimate goal of ecumenism is for Protestants to accept the highest expression of the Catholic faith—and that is to receive the so-called Holy Eucharist in the presence of a Catholic priest. If you go down the path of ecumenism, it will change your allegiance, lead you to give up your own religious identity, cause you to accept Rome’s teachings, and force you to put aside your differences with her.
Meg Giordano is a Protestant professor who teaches at the Le Moyne College, a Jesuit institution in Syracuse, New York. In an article published by the Jesuit Magazine, America, Meg Giordano promoted the idea of Catholics and Protestants celebrating together in a shared communion as a step towards Christian unity. According to Jesuit professor Giordano, the Eucharist is the essence of all Christian identity and transcends denominational differences, so both Catholics and Protestants can partake in it without violating their traditions. Professor Giordano says that the Eucharist should be a meeting point between the two faiths rather than emphasizing their individual, distinctive religious identities, which she claims only serves to further divide people.
The Jesuit Magazine, America, published the following article titled “A Call for Catholics and Protestants to Receive Communion—Side by Side” on November 7, 2024:
• “I teach philosophy at a Jesuit liberal arts college. I am an ecumenical chaplain at that same Jesuit school, where I have also been a mentor in the Manresa program, an undergraduate community inspired by Ignatian spirituality for examining one’s place in the world. My research work is in medieval theology, with a particular focus on Thomas Aquinas. My most meaningful peer-group interactions are with Catholic theologians. However, here’s the thing: I am Protestant.” [1]
• “Pope Francis, in an address to an ecumenical youth initiative in New York in 2022, ‘Community at the Crossing,’ stated: ‘Love is stronger than all the disagreements and divisions … Jesus Christ is a bond that is stronger and deeper than our cultures, our political opinions, and even than our doctrines.” [1]
• “Catholics and Protestants serve together, worship together, study and wrestle with belief together and grow in Christlike spirituality together. It has been beautiful.” [1]
• “With one exception. There is one particular area of Christian experience that distresses me insofar as Catholics and Protestants are kept distinct and separate from each other by it. This is the experience of the Eucharist, or the Lord’s Supper.” [1]
• “What I have in mind is the idea of Catholics and Protestants sharing the experience of partaking in the Eucharist each according to their tradition—that is, side by side in a shared space with a Catholic priest serving the consecrated Eucharist to Catholic believers alongside a Protestant minister serving the Communion elements to Protestant believers.” [1]
• “As Pope Francis said, ‘Jesus Christ is a bond that is stronger and deeper even than our doctrines.’ We might understand this bond not only as the power and love of Christ overcoming differences, but also, and perhaps most important of all, as the desire of Christ. Our unity is what he wanted, what he asked the Father for. I grieve, and even worry, that this particular thing Christ asked for we are neglecting, even though we do so in the name of honoring him. [1]
• “For love of Christ, and love of his church, I will continue to hope for this experience, and continue to ask for it … Maybe next time, maybe next year, we’ll all eat the meal together.” [1]
This is Jesuit Ignatian philosophy being taught by a so-called Protestant professor in a Jesuit university. In a Jesuit magazine, Meg Giordano is promoting Jesuit ecumenism to Protestants. We are told that doctrine is irrelevant and that the main focus should be on Jesus, the central figure in the Catholic Eucharist. By the standards of the 16th-century Reformation, Meg Giordano is not a Protestant. She is a professor with Jesuit training who is well-versed in Ignatius of Loyola’s spiritual philosophy, which, if accepted, will bring our Protestant heritage to an end and cause us to kneel before Rome.
The Jesuit philosophy of ignoring doctrine and focusing on Jesus is one of the most popular messages circulating in the Christian world. Tragically, it is the same Ignatian thinking that has been making its way into Adventism thanks to Ganoune Diop.
In the video above, General Conference Public Affairs and Religious Liberty leader Ganoune Diop promotes the same theories as Jesuit professor Meg Giordano, who cited Jesuit Pope Francis and the idea that Jesus is more important than doctrine.
Here is the problem with Diop’s stated position that he will preach only Jesus and not the messages of the Three Angels. It is the same problem with Ignatian philosophy, the ecumenical movement and the message of Pope Francis. Christ cannot be separated from His teachings and warnings. When you try to separate Christ from the doctrines he taught, you strip him of who he is, what he stands for, and what he is against. Without the teaching of Christ in both the gospel and the book of Revelation, which is a “revelation of Jesus Christ (Revelation 1:1), the image of Jesus is reduced to everyone’s own personal preferences rather than by the biblical record.
“The present truth, the special message given to our world, even the third angel’s message, comprehends a vast field, containing heavenly treasures. No one can be excusable who says, I will no longer have anything to do with these special messages; I will preach Christ. No one can preach Christ, and present the truth as it is in Jesus, unless he presents the truths that are to come before the people at the present time, when such important developments are taking place” (Voice in Speech and Song, p. 325).
The Three Angels’ Messages, found in Revelation 14:6–12, are absolutely foundational to Seventh-day Adventist theology and identity. These messages—emphasizing the call to worship God as Creator, the warning against spiritual Babylon, and the command to resist the “mark of the beast”—are seen as a divine mandate to prepare the world for Jesus’ imminent return. Seventh-day Adventists believe that these messages, together with the “everlasting gospel,” are the church’s unique, God-given mission to proclaim to the world.
Because these messages are so integral to the Adventist faith, neglecting to preach them in their full biblical context would be seen as abandoning the essence of Adventism. For Adventists, these messages are not optional teachings but are essential to their prophetic identity; without embracing and sharing them, one cannot truly uphold the mission and beliefs that define the Adventist movement.
Rome knows this, and that is why the Jesuits are pushing the ecumenical movement’s final endgame, which is to silence the witness and erase the messages of Revelation 14:6-12 and our history in order to bring us into Eucharistic worship at the feet of a Catholic priest. The world is coming together with the “man of sin, the son of perdition” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). The division that once existed between Protestants and Catholics is coming to an end, even as the Pope still claims universal supremacy over all people.
Today, we are seeing an explosion in ecumenical activity and interfaith worship. Basically, the religious world is responding to Rome’s call for the reunification of all the churches issued during Vatican II. The problem is that this movement is telling us to forget the past and to ignore doctrine. Your beliefs are irrelevant because we are all a part of the same large, worldwide family.
Seventh-day Adventists around the world need to stand up to the global ecumenical movement and its advances within Adventism. We must categorically reject Rome’s universal fraternity that is still infiltrating our movement. It is time for God’s people to remain steadfast in their faith until the end.
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[1] https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/11/07/giordano-eucharistic-sharing-ecumenicism-248942
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Her argument is deeply flawed and ultimately is conflating religious diversity and the slight disagreements that come with it, with division. You cannot profess to respect either denominations way of becoming spiritually intimate with God if you go about seeking to undermine the privacy of that way by publically conflating it.
This man said he is protestant. He cannot be protestant, because:
1 Protestants continue to protest against the roman papacy. protestants who compromise and join rome in ecumenism are no longer protesting, so they are no longer protestant.
2 He quotes the pope’s doctrine, which means he believes and obey. Protestants believe that whomever you obey, you are or become the servant to whom you obey, Romans 6:16.
3 He promotes ecumenism, and suggesting protestants should take part in the eucharist. Its babylonian speech of confusion. True protestants are protesting and will never do so.
4 I don’t believe a true protestant would be working in a jesuit college institution, unless he has compromised or converted,or he has always been one of them. “We are not bound to keep faith and promises to heretics,” she declares. GC88 571.1
1 Thessalonians 5:4,5
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
So much so fast.
The final movements will be rapid ones. ~ Ellen G. White
Dear Brother Roman, thank you for this important article, which shows us where the journey is heading. Sadly, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been involved with and promoting ecumenical organizations for decades. It is through watching and fellowship that we are transformed, and today we have come to the point that we as SDA’s are publicly denying our three angels message that God has commanded us to proclaim and supporting the goals of the papacy and the globalists. But no one can serve two masters, and unfortunately we are now following the Antichrist. Repentance and confession of accumulated sins and heresies are necessary so that the latter rain can fall and we can sound the Loud Cry. The sifting for sins and false doctrines is now in full swing, and we must decide today whether Christ or Satan is to be our Lord.