One of the most urgent priorities of the Papacy today is to secure world peace through ecumenical dialogue. This effort seeks to unite all the Christian denominations into a single universal family. Since the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), the Roman Catholic Church has positioned itself as the leading agent of Christian unity, sparing no effort to bring Protestants, Orthodox, and even non-Christian religions into a central unifying vision under the primacy of the Papacy.
On September 25, 2025, the National Catholic Reporter published the remarks from Roman Catholic Cardinal Grzegorz Rys, who for years worked closely with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops before his election to the Papacy. Cardinal Rys offered insight into the character of Pope Leo XIV, as well as how he is likely to conduct his Papal mission and set his priorities moving forward.
Cardinal Rys expressed the following in the National Catholic Reporter:
• “Rys stressed that there are many priorities on the desk of the pope, including world peace, to which ‘he’s very committed’.” [1]
• “Rys, who leads the Polish bishops’ Council for Religious Dialogue, said that ‘reviving ecumenical dialogue can be an instrument of unity in the world’ and is also a task for Leo.” [1]
By promoting global peace and ecumenical unity, Rome continues to expand its influence across the world. For Pope Leo XIV, ecumenical dialogue serves as a means of building bridges with all faiths while presenting the Catholic Church as indispensable to solving the world’s problems. Ecumenism has truly become the Pope’s strategic pathway for global leadership.
Revelation 13 describes a “beast” power that once suffered a deadly wound but would recover, eventually commanding the admiration and allegiance of the entire world: “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast” (Rev. 13:3). The Holy Scriptures describe the Papacy’s political power as a fulfillment of prophecy. What Protestants once firmly resisted is now being embraced in the name of unity—often at the expense of sacrificing biblical truth.
John 17 records Christ’s will for His disciples, “that they all may be one” (John 17:21). However, this unity that Jesus prays for is rooted in sanctification—an experience that comes only through obedience to God’s truth (John 17:17). Unfortunately, Rome’s ecumenical movement disregards these truths and sets aside Scripture for the sake of visible unity—turning the entire ecumenical movement into a counterfeit of Christ’s prayer.
The apostle Paul also warned of the great apostasy: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed … who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3–4). This warning points to the exaltation of human tradition above Scripture, seen most clearly in Rome’s promotion of Sunday sacredness in place of God’s seventh-day Sabbath (Exodus 20:8-11).
Ellen White foresaw the ecumenical movement as part of the last-day deception when she wrote:
“When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near” (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 451).
She further warned:
“Protestantism is reaching out its hands to clasp hands with popery, and every indication makes manifest that the prophecies are about to be fulfilled. And now men are looking upon those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus to see what will be their course” (Review and Herald, February 21, 1893).
Finally, she connects ecumenism to the enforcement of false worship:
“Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul, and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of Spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome” (Great Controversy, p. 588).
Tragically, ecumenism is laying the groundwork for a union of church and state and the coming Sunday law crisis. Once religious unity is established, prophecy foresees civil authority enforcing church doctrine. Revelation 13:16 reveals that economic pressure and coercion will be applied to enforce worship: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark.”
The call to ecumenical dialogue today is a precursor—a prophetic signpost showing that the deadly wound is healing, Protestantism is renouncing its protest, and the stage is being set for the enforcement of a counterfeit day of worship. According to Revelation 17:1–5, Babylon—the harlot woman—sits upon the kings of the earth, symbolizing a union of religious and political power that leads the world into deception. Today, ecumenism is playing a central role in positioning the Papacy as the global voice of unity. Yet in this time of compromise, God’s true people are called to stand—not upon the shifting sands of ecumenical alliances, but upon the unchanging Word of God and the everlasting gospel proclaimed in Revelation 14:6–12.
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Not only Sunday sacredness and immortality of the soul but also the Babylonian Trinity Doctrine that the Adventist leadership adopted way back in 1955-56 at the Evangelical Conferences. Leroy Froom and Roy A Anderson with Walter Martin and Donald Barnhouse helped change the whole faith of the Pioneers and the writings of Sister White along with the others from a non trinitarian truth to a trinitarian falsehood. Questions on Doctrine was a tragedy and it lead to the fall of the Adventist church and gave rise to it being another daughter of the Harlot of Babylon (Roman Catholicism) How sad and I believe if the people don’t wake up, they will be swallowed up in accepting Sunday Laws and changing the name to just Adventist Church ditching the Seventh Day to save face like in 1955-56 😔