On November 19, 2025, during a General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV met with pilgrims from across Italy and around the world. In his address, Pope Leo XIV returned to the theme of the Jubilee Year 2025, claiming that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ provides the basis for the “ecological conversion” needed to bring about the “integral ecology” that will solve today’s global challenges. This message reflects the core of Laudato Si’, and Leo XIV is advancing Pope Francis’ agenda by calling for the creation of a global framework that blends environmentalism, politics, economics, solidarity, and spirituality into a single, unified moral system for the entire world.
The Holy See Press Office reported the following statements from Pope Leo:
• “We are reflecting, in this Jubilee Year dedicated to hope, on the relationship between the Resurrection of Christ and the challenges of the contemporary world.” [1]
• “In this way, the death and resurrection of Jesus are the foundation of a spirituality of integral ecology, outside of which the words of faith have no hold on reality and the words of science remain outside the heart.” [1]
• “In the peace of the Sabbath and the beauty of a garden, the dramatic struggle between darkness and light that began with the betrayal, arrest, abandonment, condemnation, humiliation and killing of the Son, who “having loved his own who were in the world … loved them to the end” (Jn 13:1), comes to a close.” [1]
• “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev 21:5). Pope Francis, with the Encyclical Laudato si’, showed us the extreme need for a contemplative gaze: if he is not the custodian of the garden, the human being becomes its destroyer.” [1]
• “There are also many people who desire, through a more direct relationship with creation, a new harmony that will lead them beyond so many divisions.” [1]
• “For this reason, we speak of an ecological conversion, which Christians cannot separate from the reversal of course that Jesus asks of them. A sign of this is Mary’s turning around on that Easter morning: only by conversion after conversion do we pass through that vale of tears to the new Jerusalem.” [1]
Pope Leo presents his message about Sunday rest, care for creation, sustainability, and global governance as if these were inseparably tied to the biblical teaching of the Resurrection of Christ. This represents a major departure from the true gospel and a redefinition of Christianity’s central message. Instead of proclaiming the death, resurrection, and mediation of Jesus as the means by which sinners are redeemed and reconciled to God, these statements reduce the gospel to a socio-political agenda. The focus shifts from salvation to sustainability—from sins against God’s law to supposed sins against the planet. It also replaces the biblical seventh-day Sabbath with Sunday, trading the biblical call to repentance for a call to ecological conversion. In this new model, environmental activism becomes the new form of discipleship.
If these proposals from Pope Leo XIV are accepted, it would completely undermine the Three Angels’ Message and redefine the Seventh-day Adventist witness. The first angel calls the world to fear God, give glory to Him, and worship the Creator on the day He sanctified—the seventh-day Sabbath—and not exalt Sunday observance as a moral duty for the planet. The second angel warns against Babylon’s false teachings, but Rome’s plan calls for the world to come back and join their global ecological movement. The third angel gives the most solemn warning in Scripture against receiving the mark of the beast, yet this reinterpretation replaces that warning with a call to “ecological conversion” and loyalty to human laws for the common good.
By replacing redemption, obedience, and true worship with sustainability, climate activism, and Sunday sacredness, this agenda strikes at the very foundation of Revelation 14 and destroys the heart of the Adventist message. To accept the new integral ecology is to silence the Remnant’s mission, corrupt the everlasting gospel, and join hands with the very power that Scripture warns will deceive the world. This is not a harmless shift—it is a direct assault on the Three Angels’ Messages. We dare not follow the multitudes who have laid down the protest and are now joining with the forces of the final apostasy.
“In the very time in which we live, the Lord has called His people and has given them a message to bear. He has called them to expose the wickedness of the man of sin who has made the Sunday law a distinctive power, who has thought to change times and laws, and to oppress the people of God who stand firmly to honor Him by keeping the only true Sabbath, the Sabbath creation, as holy unto the Lord” (Evangelism, p. 705).
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[1] https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2025/11/19/251119c.html
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Very clever twisting of Scripture, or twisted application by them of Mary and Easter morning and their “vale of tears” comment. Very cleverly crafted deception via linguistics on their part.