First major document of Robert Prevost…
Antipope Leo XIV
Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te
on Love for the Poor
October 4, 2025
The Vatican’s text factory has just released another endless ‘magisterial’ document, the first of the new ‘Pope’ Leo XIV (Robert Francis Prevost).
Published exactly two years after his predecessor Francis’ ‘apostolic exhortation’ Laudate Deum on the climate religion, Leo XIV has now released the ‘apostolic exhortation’ Dilexi Te on love for the poor.
The new document is lengthy. In English, the text consists of 21,546 words. It is divided into 5 chapters and has 121 numbered paragraphs, with a total of 130 footnotes. If one clicks on the corresponding link embedded at the top of the page, the Vatican web site generates a PDF of 54 pages.
Not surprisingly, the text is loaded with references to the false Vatican II popes and their magisterium, especially Francis. By contrast, Pope Pius XII’s name appears only twice, Leo XIII’s once. There is almost no reference to any Pope before Vatican II, although a number of Church Fathers are quoted.
The original text of Dilexi Te was presumably written in English, since that is Leo XIV’s native language. So far, the Vatican has made translations available in seven languages:
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in English
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in Spanish
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in French
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in Italian
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in German
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in Portuguese
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in Polish
- Full Text of Dilexi Te in Arabic
Along with the release of Dilexi Te, Leo XIV sent a short letter to the world’s Novus Ordo bishops:
The following brief video clip shows Leo XIV putting his signature to the official copies of Dilexi Te:
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A few summaries of the new exhortation are also available from different sources:
- Pope Leo: Faith cannot be separated from love for the poor (Vatican News)
- Peter reminds us that the poor are the heart of the Gospel (Vatican News)
- Dilexi te: Commitment to poor is prerequisite of faith, not a consequence (Vatican News)
- Dilexi te: Key Points of the First Magisterial Document of Pope Leo (Rome Reports)
- ‘Dilexi te’: A brief guide for busy readers (The Pillar)
- 12 quotes from “Dilexi Te,” Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation (OSV eNews)
- Ten of the Best Passages From Dilexi Te (Where Peter Is)
- Summary of Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te (Sacerdotus)
The following is a list of links with initial coverage and commentary on Dilexi Te by all kinds of sources from various perspectives [many links added since initial publication]:
- Pope Leo’s 1st document a treasury of saints’ thoughts (Aleteia)
- Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury (Associated Press)
- Pope Leo invokes criticism of Trump’s policies in first major document (Reuters)
- First official doctrinal letter by Pope Leo XIV published (english.katholisch.de)
- Leo’s Dilexit te warns of ‘unhealthy society,’ urges Church to renew care for poor (Per Mariam)
- Analysis: ‘Dilexi Te’ defined by charity, continuity and unity (OSV News)
- Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate (Crux)
- Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians (America)
- 9 things to know about “Dilexi Te,” Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation (OSV News)
- Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document (National Catholic Reporter)
- “Dilexi Te” Takes Us through Church History, Focusing on the Poor (Where Peter Is)
- Pope Leo’s First Major Document Rebukes Trumpian Walls, Defends Migrants and the Poor (Letters from Leo)
- Pope Leo XIV continues Francis’ emphasis on a ‘poor Church for the poor’ in new exhortation (Life Site)
- Dilexi te: Pope Accidentally Exposes Post-Conciliar Church with One Question in First Apostolic Exhortation (Radical Fidelity)
- Dilexi Te — Leo XIV’s first Exhortation (Rorate Caeli)
- Leo XIV’s Apostolic Exhortation on the Poor Further Impoverishes the Church and World (The Remnant)
- Reflections on Dilexi Te, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s papacy (Catholic World Report)
- Dilexi Te and the Danger of Neo-Pharisaism (One Peter Five)
- Dilexi Te, or Poverty as a Theological Misunderstanding (The Remnant)
- Sedevacantist Bp. Donald Sanborn examines Dilexi Te (Most Holy Trinity Seminary)
- Dilexi Te: A Poverty of Faith, Truth, and Facts (Christ or Chaos)
Rome Reports has published a brief overview of key points in Dilexi Te here:
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The Vatican held a press conference on Oct. 9, 2025, introducing the apostolic exhortation. Among the presenters was ‘Cardinal’ Michael Czerny, the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The video is embedded below or can be accessed on YouTube here.
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We have run the text of Dilexi Te through a word count engine. According to it, the most frequently used keywords in the text are the following, together with the number of mentions:
- poor (264)
- Church (87)
- God (82)
- love (80)
For more information about the man who falsely claims to be the Pope of the Catholic Church (‘Pope Leo XIV’), please see our topical page here.
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