Title: Dilexi Te (“I Have Loved You”)
Release Date: Signed 4 October 2025, published 9 October 2025 (Feast of St. Francis of Assisi) by Pope Leo XIV
Publisher: Vatican / respective local editions (e.g. Claretian in Macau)
Pages: 96
📝 Summary
- Dilexi Te is Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation, which builds on work begun by Pope Francis.
- Focuses on the Church’s love for the poor, calling Christians to re-embrace service, justice, and compassion toward those marginalized.
- Emphasizes that caring for the poor is not optional or peripheral, but central to Christian holiness — faith in Christ is inseparable from love of neighbor, especially the suffering and needy.
- Warns against social structures, cultural attitudes, and economic systems that perpetuate inequality and injustice — calls for conversion not just of actions, but of mindsets and systems.
- Uses Scriptural, historical, and saintly examples (Saint Francis, Church Fathers, social teaching) to show how love for the poor has been expressed through the centuries
