Dilexi te

Father Bux to Cardinal Cupich: The Liturgy Must Elevate Us to Divine Truth and Beauty
To His Eminence Cardinal Blase Cupich Your Most Reverend Eminence, “For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we ...

When “Welcome” Collides With Caesar: Dilexi Te and the Missing Question
The Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te limits its discussion of “migrants” to three paragraphs: 73–75. Paragraph 73 claims that “The experience of migration accompanies the history of the People of God,” citing Abraham, ...

Dilexi Te: Treating the Poor As Slaves
One of the most sneaky lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ ...

From Altar to Activism: The Church’s Drift Toward NGO Theology
Introductory Commentary From Vicki Yamasaki In this penetrating critique of Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te, Professor Timothy J.A. O’Donnell warns that the document signals a troubling theological shift ...

Fr. Robert McTeigue: The Sacrament of Redistribution
There has been a lot of talk about the poor recently, but official documents seem to leave much unsaid. Let's take a closer look ...

Dilexi Te: The Gospel According to Marx
Leo XIV’s first exhortation promises a Church “close to the poor.” What it delivers is a baptized socialism where salvation sounds suspiciously like wealth redistribution. The text opens with Revelation ...

Dilexi Te: Mass Migration Is Providential
Does the Vatican see the face of Christ in the old women raped, even to death, by asylum seekers? Does it see the face of Christ in the girls sex-trafficked ...

Dilexi Te: Pope Accidentally Exposes Post-Conciliar Church with One Question in First Apostolic Exhortation
Pope Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi te, was thrust upon the world earlier today. What can I say? I read it. It was about the poor. I had a ...