Pope Leo XIV has released the first document of his pontificate, an Apostolic Exhortation called Dilexi te: I have loved you.
Source: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV has released the first document of his pontificate, an Apostolic Exhortation called Dilexi te, ‘I have loved you’.
Underpinned by Scripture, Catholic social teaching, and the teaching of his predecessors, Dilexi te focuses on the Church’s love for the poor and God’s special concern for those living in poverty. It affirms the ways in which the magisterium should inform our pastoral practice in accompanying the poor and vulnerable to serve the common good.
“We have received the first Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Leo XIV. It is a beautiful Christo-centric reflection on love for the poorest, including the new forms of poverty in our world. The letter which takes up Pope Francis’s teaching will surely stand together with Pope Benedict’s Encyclical Letter “Deus Caritas Est” (2005) as the charter for our work and witness in caritas.”
Bishop Mark Davies
