Overview

• The Vatican released the exhortation on October 9, with León XIV’s signature dated October 4, and the text spans 121 numbered sections.
• The document denounces a “dictatorship of an economy that kills,” criticizes wealthy elites living in insulated “bubbles,” and urges purification of unjust economic structures.
• León XIV calls Catholics to welcome migrants and refugees as brothers and sisters, lamenting that Mediterranean tragedies like the image of Alan Kurdi have been relegated to marginal news.
• The exhortation rejects meritocratic claims that blame the poor for their condition and highlights the “double poverty” of women who face exclusion, abuse, and violence.
• Warning that a church that fails at inclusion risks “dissolution,” the Pope urges concrete pastoral action and a public voice that awakens and denounces structural injustice.