Laudato Si’ Action Platform Annual Report 2024-2025: A Church Walking Together in Hope
Posted December 18, 2025
The past year has been one of both transition and deepening for those enrolled in the Laudato Si’Action Platform. As communities across more than 150 countries continue their ecological conversion, the Church has accompanied them with clarity and renewed conviction.
The 2024–2025 Annual Report traces that journey: a network of parishes, dioceses, schools, and religious communities taking steady, measurable steps toward healing our common home, even amid global uncertainty. It also marks a moment of gratitude for the enduring legacy of Pope Francis and a renewed commitment under Pope Leo XIV, who has called the world to a fresh sense of responsibility for creation.
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This year’s reflections from Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, and Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A., the Dicastery’s Secretary, ground the report in the spiritual heart of our mission.
Their messages invite us to see the Platform not merely as a program, but as a pilgrimage of communion, where perseverance, tenderness, accountability, and Gospel-rooted action continue to guide the Church forward.
Message from Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J.
Dear members of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform,
Christ’s peace be with you!
This year marks a moment of transition and continuity. We give thanks for the legacy of Pope Francis, whose prophetic teaching offered us the Encyclical Laudato Si’. We also sincerely welcome the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, who has already affirmed, on many occasions, our responsibility to take action on ecological conversion and has enriched the Church liturgically by introducing the Mass for the Care of Creation.
More than 11,000 participants in the Laudato Si’ Action Platform (LSAP) from every region of the world are engaged in living out their commitment to ecological conversion. Thus, they truly serve as beacons of hope and promoters of accountability in response to the teachings of both Pope Francis and Pope Leo.
The renewed LSAP website and tools are like lanterns along the path, helping each community walk with greater clarity and confidence. A new Certificate of Commitment now honors those institutions —parishes, schools, dioceses, and religious communities—that persevere, in love and action, as living witnesses of care for our common home.
Amid global uncertainty, the COP30 in Brazil offers an important occasion to recall and reaffirm the Church’s unique role in inspiring hope and accountability.
Let us continue walking together in faith. The Platform’s quiet strength lies in its resilience and adaptability to work in loving partnership to promote ecological conversion through attentive listening, sharing, and determined action, despite many global and local crises and challenges. These commitments go far beyond mere symbolic gestures—they are signs of a Church alive, credible, and courageous.
With gratitude for everyone’s commitment and with prayers for all our efforts to renew our common home.,
H.E. Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J.
Prefect, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Message from Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A.
Dear members of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform,
Each year, the journey of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform deepens—quietly, steadily, and in communion. What began as a call has become a shared witness and a union of prayer, reflection, sharing of experiences, and action, a way of embodying our faith through care, justice, and hope.
This shared path is walked by thousands of communities across the world. The Platform shines a light on a Church that listens, prays, accompanies, and puts the Gospel and Catholic Social Doctrine into everyday action to renew “our common home [which] is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. (Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, #1”).. This pilgrimage is marked by a firm and unwavering commitment, but also by tenderness—loving care for creation and for one another, as daughters and sons made in the image of God.
As we celebrate the accomplishments of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform for the past year, let us also be mindful of the many challenges that remain and take special heed of Pope Leo XIV who calls us to renewed action and to remain faithful to the call of Pope Francis: “Care for creation therefore represents a true vocation for every human being, a commitment to be fulfilled within creation itself, without ever forgetting that we are creatures among creatures, and not creators.
For this reason, it is important … to “‘recover a serene harmony with creation, reflecting on our lifestyle and our ideals, and contemplating the Creator who lives among us and surrounds us”´ (Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, 225).
Let us continue this pilgrimage, listening to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor, as we put the Gospel into action with courage and grace in every corner of the world.
Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A.
Secretary, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development