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Bishops react to ‘Dilexi te’

Edgar Beltrán
Oct 09, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV on Thursday published Dilexi te, the first major document of his pontificate.

Bishops present Dilexi te at an Oct. 9 Vatican press conference. Credit: Vatican Media.

The roughly 20,000-word apostolic exhortation follows Pope Francis’ October 2024 encyclical Dilexit nos (“He loved us”).

In the text, Leo acknowledges that he worked from a draft…

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