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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Oct 16, 2025
Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. See full bio.
Just a week after its publication, Dilexi Te has almost disappeared from public discussions. Is the first major teaching document of Pope Leo XIV really destined to be so soon forgotten?
The release of this papal document had been anxiously awaited, as Vatican-watchers anticipated the first clear indications of the new Pope’s pastoral plans. After years of controversy and confusion under Pope Francis, would Leo steer the Barque of Peter back into calmer waters, into the mainstream of Catholic thought? Or would he push ahead with his predecessor’s program? The first few months of Leo’s pontificate had not provided answers to those questions; he had carefully avoided major controversies, while making sympathetic gestures toward Catholics on both sides of various ecclesial disputes. But an apostolic exhortation—especially one on a document as fraught with political overtones as poverty—seemed sure to resolve the mysteries.
It did not. Dilexi Te provided no fireworks, no theological novelties, no promises of ambitious new papal initiatives. …
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