It is incompatible with both the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy to allow Roman Catholic archbishops to promote Catholic ideology within Seventh-day Adventist churches, because our sacred spaces are supposed to be dedicated to the worship of a Holy God and not “common houses” for Rome’s ecumenical encounters. Our Adventist community, values, and message are in direct opposition to the ecumenical message that Rome is pushing. And by allowing such displays in our churches, this symbolizes the deep contradiction and confusion in which many of our pastors and leaders find themselves because they reject God’s call to come out of Babylon (Revelation 18:4).
On January 21, 2025, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, Italy, published images of an ecumenical encounter inside of a Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The title of the event was called “Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Unites Us and Creates More Relationships of Friendships and Brotherhood.” In attendance were representatives of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Evangelical Church of Reconciliation, the Lutheran Church, the Methodist Church, the Pentecostal Community, and the Russian and Romanian Orthodox Churches.
At the Adventist Church of Palermo, situated on Via Gioacchino Di Marzo, Monsignor Corrado Lorefice, the Archbishop of Palermo, gave a sermon on Christian unity that amounted to nothing more than advancing the Pope’s universal fraternity. The Catholic archbishop said the following in his message:
• “We are gathered here in the joy of being able to find each other again, to confess together what seduces and passions our hearts, the Lord Jesus.” [1]
• “Faith is a context of a relationship and chapter 11 of the Gospel of St. John has remnants of an amazing tenderness, a tenderness entrusted in terms of friendship, of love that binds Jesus to his brothers and sisters; the context of faith sends us back to a brotherly relationship, of friendship and love.” [1]
• “Our meeting here tonight, all together, helps us confess that, do you think this? As an element of faith that accompanies us and that causes more and more relationships of friendship and brotherhood to erupt because the God that we have met is the one who has only one vision, that of a brotherhood that inhabits the earth as a fertile garden with its center the tree of life.” [1]
• “God thought of us as brothers, as the community of Bethany. From today’s meeting you can smell the fragrance of friendship that collapses throughout the common house.” [1]
These Roman Catholic leaders are laboring to establish Pope Francis’ one-world religious fraternity. Ultimately, this is just another attempt to persuade Protestants that we need to return to Rome. The Vatican is manipulating every ecumenical encounter in order to bring the churches together. Make no mistake about it. Pope Francis is paving the way for the installation of the papal new world order and the Antichrist-led government foretold in Revelation 13 and 17. The whole world is being gathered into one big unholy alliance through the efforts of the man of sin:
“The professed Protestant world will form a confederacy with the man of sin, and the church and the world will be in corrupt harmony” (Bible Commentary, 7:975).
“The world is filled with storm and war and variance. Yet under one head—the papal power—the people will unite to oppose God in the person of His witnesses. This union is cemented by the great apostate. While he seeks to unite his agents in warring against the truth” (Testimonies, Vol. 7, p. 182).
On the other side of Rome’s universal fraternity are God’s faithful remnant people who fear Him and give glory to Him (Revelation 14:7). God is calling His people to have a completely different experience than the one seen in the modern ecumenical movement. He is calling us to an experience of unity in the Three Angels’ Messages. We are called to believe in these messages, to proclaim them, and to persuade all men everywhere to obey them. We are to be faithful in keeping His commandments and in giving His final message of warning, in spite of all the opposition and challenges. May God help us to sever these relationships, to take a stand for the truth, and to stay the course towards heaven.
“The Lord is about to punish the world for its iniquity. He is about to punish religious bodies for their rejection of the light and truth which has been given them. The great message, combining the first, second and third angels’ messages, is to be given to the world. This is to be the burden of our work. Those who truly believe in Christ will openly conform to the law of Jehovah. The Sabbath is the sign between God and His people, and we are to make visible our conformity to the law of God by observing the Sabbath. It is to be the mark of distinction between God’s chosen people and the world” (Kress Collection, 105).
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