Antipope Leo XIV: Apostolic Exhortation ‘Dilexi Te’ on Love for the Poor (Oct. 4, 2025)

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:

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:

The following is a list of links with initial coverage and commentary on Dilexi Te by all kinds of sources from various perspectives:

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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