Francis promoted a Church that goes forth, close to the peripheries and committed to building peace through encounters among universities, organized communities, workers, business leaders, bishops, and young people. His magisterium inspired concrete processes of articulation between the North and the South, oriented toward the care of our common home, social justice, and reconciliation among peoples.

His call to “organize hope” remains today an urgent task and a shared responsibility. In every synodal encounter, in every space of North-South dialogue, and in every effort for the care of our common home, his invitation to listen, discern, and act together remains alive, convinced that the great contemporary challenges require community-based responses, sincere dialogue, and a renewed social responsibility.

On this anniversary, from the Building Bridges Initiative, we renew our commitment to Francis’ legacy by strengthening synodal and cooperative spaces of encounter, in fidelity to Pope Leo XIV, at the service of reconciliation and fraternity, building bridges for peace.