"We have to Demolish the Barriers," Declares a Seventh-day Adventist Pastor During an Ecumenical Celebration at the Holy Souls in Purgatory Catholic Church

Do we believe in the Catholic doctrine that at the time of death the soul travels to purgatory, a place of suffering or purification, before entering heaven? Apparently, some of our pastors have no objections to the idea of souls being purified in purgatory. On February 26, 2023, the official magazine of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ragusa, Sicily, called "Insieme," published a story about an interfaith celebration that took place at a Catholic church called Chiesa delle Anime del Purgatorio (Holy Souls in Purgatory Catholic Church).

The Catholic publication characterized the gathering as "an opportunity for spiritual growth and fraternity between churches of different denominations." The churches that attended this ecumenical event were as follows, according to the news report: "the Catholic Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Lutheran Evangelical Community of Sicily, the Romanian Orthodox Church (Santa Melania parish), the Pentecostal Christian church of Santa Croce Camerina, the Scoglitti New Creation Pentecostal Christian Church, and the Gospel Forum Pentecostal Christian Church in Vittoria."

The purpose of this meeting was to promote and strengthen the Vatican-led campaign for church unity. That's what many of the speakers expressed, including Pastor Daniele Passaretta of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Roman Catholic dioceses highlighted some of the main points of the speakers, who publicly argued for the need for the various denominations to come together as one.

• Catholic Archbishop: "Archbishop La Placa said: 'In the end God will ask us if we have succeeded in loving, in realizing God's dream, the dream of unity. Tonight I ask that unity between the churches become the breath of humanity.'"

• Seventh-day Adventist Pastor: "Daniele Passaretta said: 'If we want to build something we have to demolish the barriers, build with peace. It is Jesus who gives solidity to our project: to realize Christ's plan: that all may be one'."

• Pentecostal Pastor: "Mario Bassotto invited us to 'open our hearts to the spirit that spreads joy in our hearts and makes us live as brothers'."

• Catholic Priest: "Don Salvatore Converso compared the unity between the different churches to the work of a musical orchestra, where "different instruments they each perform melodies that make up a single harmony, harmonies that captivate the heart."

How could any Seventh-day Adventist pastor stand in a Roman Catholic church and urge us to "demolish the barriers" that divide us from one another? How can he claim that Jesus wants us to do this? Pastor Daniele Passaretta is calling for a closer and more intimate relationship with the beast power of Revelation, the principal opponent of God on earth. Tragically, we are seeing our own pastors "stretching their hands across the gulf" and reaching over the "abyss abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power" (Great Controversy, p. 588).

This global movement that is helping the churches overcome divisions by promoting greater cooperation and understanding originated in the Vatican. Tragically, this is causing many of our own pastors to tolerate and even promote Catholic errors and traditions. What is happening in Italy, as well as in many other places across the world, presents a serious threat to our people. And if we continue down this path, we will end up, not in the imaginary place called purgatory, but in the lake of fire:

"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." Revelation 19:20.

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