logans do not lift people out of poverty,” Pope Leo XIV said in his address to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, exactly a week after his first major document was released. Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You) is an apostolic exhortation “on love for the poor.”
What does lift people out of poverty? That is not a question the Christian tradition really asks, and neither does the Holy Father in Dilexi Te, a document much more in the line of Pope Francis than Pope Leo XIII, after whom Leo XIV chose his regnal name. Indeed, Dilexi Te is clearly a Francis document that Leo has “made his own.” How much it reflects his own approach remains to be seen.
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