2025 was a year unlike any other — a year of celebration, remembrance, and bold new beginnings.
As the Laudato Si’ Movement marked the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, our global community rediscovered what moves us at the deepest level: the conviction that everything is connected, and the courage to believe that another world is possible. In this 2025, the Laudato Si’ Movement inspired hope and collective action by empowering communities, influencing global climate discussions, and advancing ecological spirituality as Catholics celebrated the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’ and the Jubilee for creation.
Across continents and cultures, we found ourselves returning to the heart — the heart of creation, the heart of faith, and the heart of our shared mission. This year reminded us that God continues whispering hope into the world, and that we are called to amplify that hope through our lives, our choices, and our united action.
10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’:
A Decade of Awakening
Ten years after Pope Francis gifted the world his landmark encyclical, Laudato Si’ continues to shine as a beacon of prophetic clarity. It has awakened millions to the sacred responsibility we share for our common home — not as an abstract ideal, but as a profoundly spiritual, moral, and human calling.
Kicking off this extraordinary year in January, a 10-hour vigil gathered over 1,000 participants and successfully wove together a global network of communities devoted to contemplative prayer and creation care.
In 2025, communities returned to the encyclical’s core message with renewed tenderness and urgency. Families prayed together. Parishes organized learning circles. Youth groups rediscovered their voice as protagonists of ecological conversion. Religious congregations renewed their vows with creation-centered spirituality. Thousands took simple but courageous steps — planting trees, reducing consumption, organizing local advocacy, deepening their prayer life.
Laudato Si’ Week became a global heartbeat, pulsing across oceans and time zones. In every place where people gathered to reflect and act, the same truth echoed:
We belong to each other. We belong to creation. And creation belongs to God.
This anniversary year reminded us that caring for the Earth is not only an environmental responsibility — it is an act of faith, an embrace of justice, and an inheritance for future generations.
A Transition of Light:
Farewell to Pope Francis, Welcome to Pope Leo XIV
This year held a poignant and historic turning point for the Church and for all who care for our common home. The global community mourned the passing of Pope Francis, the shepherd who dared to dream of an integral ecology rooted in the Gospel. His legacy — marked by tenderness, moral courage, and prophetic boldness — reshaped Catholic social teaching and energized the global movement for climate justice.
His voice continues to echo in the life of the Laudato Si’ Movement:
in the Animators who teach,
in the children who learn,
in the communities planting hope after disaster,
and in every person who believes that a healed world is possible.
Relive the Laudato Si’ Memorial held in his honor.
Into this moment of shared grief stepped Pope Leo XIV, offering the Church a message of peace, unity, and accompaniment. His first words — “Peace be with you all” — carried the same openness and pastoral warmth that defined Pope Francis, while calling humanity to move forward with fresh courage.
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His early gestures — including his moving salute during Laudato Si’ Week 2025, his homilies, and the symbolic blessing he offered at the Raising Hope Conference — illuminated a clear horizon of continuity and renewal: the journey of ecological conversion continues, strengthened by humility, compassion, and a profound commitment to the most vulnerable.
A Mass for the Care of Creation:
A Gift to the Global Church
One of Pope Leo XIV’s first acts was the introduction of the new Mass for the Care of Creation — a historic milestone aligning spirituality, worship, and ecological responsibility.
Celebrated in forests, parish courtyards, schools, coastlines, and cathedrals, this Mass quickly became a wellspring of renewal. Children brought leaves and flowers as symbols of gratitude. Elders prayed for future generations. Communities lifted hymns inspired by the Canticle of the Creatures during its 800th anniversary, transforming simple gatherings into vibrant expressions of praise, especially during Season of Creation 2025.
This new expression of faith strengthens the Church’s journey toward loving and protecting creation. And through its global network, the Laudato Si’ Movement continues to ensure that this prayer becomes a living commitment to our common home.
Season of Creation 2025:
Peace With Creation
This year’s Season of Creation united Christians from every corner of the world under the theme “Peace with Creation.”
From bustling cities to rural villages, countless communities embodied the message through tree planting, garden of peace, street liturgies, public witness, ecological education, and advocacy for clean energy.
In Africa, bishops’ conferences called for climate justice as an act of peace.
In Asia, youth led symbolic pilgrimages to rivers, mountains, and sacred sites.
In Latin America, Indigenous leaders guided moments of prayer that honored ancestral wisdom.
In Europe, animators spread Laudato Si’ prayer is hundreds of churches and Bishops called Europe to keep action for climate,
In North America, thousands of Pilgrims of Hope for Creation journeyed thousands of miles to heal our broken relationships.
The Season of Creation 2025 sowed seeds of justice, tenderness, and hope that will continue to grow into 2026 and far beyond.
The Global Encounter:
A Worldwide Family Listening Together
On July 19, more than 1,000 participants from 80+ countries gathered online — a global tapestry of accents, faces, and stories. This culminating moment of an 18-month listening process marked a milestone in LSM’s history.
Together, we celebrated how a movement born from grassroots passion has matured into a spiritual force with ecclesial impact.
Participants reflected on the Listening Process Report, shared testimonies, prayed in multiple languages, and offered final insights that will shape the Encounter Final Document — our roadmap for the years ahead.
It was not simply an event.
It was a moment of communion. A moment of grace. A moment where the global Church breathed together.
LSA Trainings & LSAP:
A Movement Growing in Depth and Breadth
More than 2,000 new Laudato Si’ Animators completed their formation in 2025 — each one a seed of transformation planted in their community. They represented every continent and brought stories of hope, struggle, resilience, and joyful commitment.
The Laudato Si’ Action Platform (LSAP) expanded with stronger resources, clearer pathways, and new partnerships, helping parishes, families, schools, congregations, and institutions chart their journey of ecological conversion.
The dream of Laudato Si’ is becoming real — one Animator, one Action Plan, one community at a time.
Prophetic Advocacy:
A Global Call for Justice
Churches raised a unified and powerful moral cry for climate justice in the lead-up to COP30. This was not simply another statement — it was a prophetic proclamation. For the first time, the global South articulated a shared vision rooted in buen vivir, a way of life that honors harmony with creation, dignity, community, and the wisdom of Indigenous peoples. The river of Hope was a staple to remind negotiators about the importance of care of creation.
This groundbreaking document from Bishops from Global South denounced false solutions and technocratic fixes that ignore the suffering of the most vulnerable. Instead, it offered a spiritual and ecological alternative: a call to conversion, restoration, and justice led by those who have long borne the heaviest burdens of the climate crisis.
This prophetic voice was amplified by 62 faith institutions divesting from fossil fuels, sending a powerful signal also from Global North faith institutions:
economic choices must be moral choices.
In May Bishop Gerardo Alminaza’s trip to Europe to call for climate justice at several banks AGM and his meeting young movements and Church leaders built new bridges of understanding and hope between South and North.
At COP30, the upcoming Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFT) Colombia Ministerial opened new possibilities for a just transition, especially for vulnerable nations.
Faith communities stood shoulder to shoulder with small island states like Tuvalu, amplifying their urgent call for survival and justice.
Raising Hope:
A Call to Return to the Heart
At the Raising Hope Conference, Pope Leo XIV offered a stirring call:
“Return to the heart. From there begins true ecological conversion.”
Blessing a fragment of glacier ice from Greenland — a symbol of both fragility and covenant — he invited the world to move beyond data toward transformation.
Global leaders echoed this message:
Marina Silva urged urgent political courage.
Arnold Schwarzenegger challenged the world to take decisive action.
The Conference left us with a burning question:
What must we do now to ensure the cry of the Earth and the poor leads to lasting change? And has been echoed by the plenty of partners that supported the event.
The People’s Determined Contributions (PDC) campaign became our collective response, with more than 1,600 commitments delivered to COP30 — a testament that faith communities are ready to lead and an important first step towards a much bigger initiative. The PDC concept was included in the Belem Action Mechanism as part of the citizen-led track and will continue in 2026, aiming to make climate-action transitions fairer, more inclusive and more effective.
Pilgrimage, Presence, and Prophetic Action
at COP30
The Rivers of Hope pilgrimage, journeying from Rome to Belém, carried the prayers of countless communities and symbolized the long road toward ecological justice.
A delegation of 12 LSM members — diverse in age, culture, and vocation — represented our movement at COP30, embodying the global Catholic commitment to climate action.
Around 60 faith based movements were witnessed, grounded in spirituality, solidarity, and hope, helping keep the moral urgency of climate justice at the center of the negotiations.
In France, grassroot and faith leaders were united in prayer and call to ambitious decisions to achieve climate justice, through vigils in parishes or cathedrals, silent prayers in the street and strong common interfaith statements.
A Decade of Laudato Si’ — And a Thank You
Since 2015, the message of Laudato Si’ has ignited a global mission:
- Thousands of institutions have joined the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
- Millions have prayed, acted, advocated, and stood up for our common home.
- Catholic communities, in collaboration with all faiths around the world, have become powerful voices for ecological justice.
This year, Pope Leo XIV addressed university rectors preparing for COP30, calling them to courageous leadership and prophetic imagination. His message reflected what LSM has embodied for ten years:
a heartfelt commitment to ecological, social, and environmental justice — rooted in faith, strengthened by community, and animated by hope.