Berkley Center

As part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations, the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si': On Care for our Common Home will be commemorated with the conference "Ten Years of Laudato Si': Challenges and Hope." Over three days, the event will reflect on a decade of efforts to implement the encyclical's message and examine future directions for engagement. 

The conference is held at the Pontifical Gregorian University and is co-organized by Ateno de Manila University, The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, the Institut de Théologie de la Compagnie de Jésus, the Laudato Si' Research Institute as part of the Integral Ecology Research Network, Loyola University Chicago, the Pontificia Università Gregoriana, and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. It is also co-sponsored by La Civiltà Cattolica and Jesuit "Curia Generalizia." 

June 12

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome | Opening Speech 

Featured Speakers: His Eminence  Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J. ITCJ-Abidjan Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Human Integral Development. 

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome | Laudato Si’: Challenges of its Implementation 

Featured Speakers: Albert Alejo, S.J., Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Kohei Saito, Georgetown University 

3:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome | Integral Ecology and Ecological Conversion: The Challenge of Spreading it, Especially at the Community Level, and Linking it to the Sustainable Development Goals 

Featured Speakers: Noélie Djimadoumbaye, Institut de Théologie de la Compagnie de Jésus; Pablo Palacios Rodríguez, Pontificia Universidad; Javeriana Salvatore Coppola-Finegan, IERN, LSRI, Campion Hall, University of Oxford 

4:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome | Coffee Break 

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome |University as a Laboratory of Sustainability and Integral Ecology Operations, academic affairs, community formation and national/international networking 

Featured Speakers: Luis Fernando Múnera Congote, S.J., and María Adelaida Fara Quijano, Pontificia Universidad; Javeriana Nancy Tuchman, Loyola University Chicago; Emmanuel Delocado, Ateneo de Manila University 

June 13

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome | Opening session: Keynote on interdisciplinary (tbc) 

2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Working Groups: 

1.The Future of Theology Under the Challenge of Integral Ecology (Aula C012) 

Coordinator: Gerard Whelan, S.J., Pontificia Università Gregoriana 

2. Social Justice, Environmental Challenges, Local Communities, Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Integral Ecology (Aula L210) 

Coordinators: María Adelaida Farah Quijano, Pontificia Universidad; Javeriana Loic Mben, S.J., Institut de Théologie de la Compagnie de Jésus Salvatore; Coppola-Finegan, IERN, LSRI, Campion Hall, University of Oxford 

3. Climate Transition and Sustainable Patterns of Consumption and Production (Aula C009) 

Coordinators: Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz, Ateneo de Manila University; Paolo Conversi, Pontificia Università Gregoriana

4. Integral Ecology Education and Communication (Aula C008) 

Coordinators:  Michael Schuck, Loyola University Chicago ;Jairo H. Cifuentes Madrid, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 

5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome | Coffee-break 

5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome | Presentation of the Working Groups Outcome in General Debate

June 14

9:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. (GMT +2:00) Rome |The Way Forward: Future Perspective and Concrete Proposals for Collaboration