Dilexi te: Pope Leo XIV’s First Word to the Church

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Dilexi te: Pope Leo XIV’s First Word to the Church

Pope Leo XIV’s Dilexi te (“I have loved you”) was signed on 4 October 2025, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi — an apt date for a document dedicated to love made concrete in poverty. The text runs to 123 numbered paragraphs and roughly 16,000 words, placing it among the shorter but more programmatic…

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