Overview

• The Vatican published Dilexi te, which warns the Church risks “disolución” if it withdraws from inclusive pastoral engagement or prioritizes elites.
• León rejects neoliberal market dogmas, urges robust public institutions to secure basic goods, and cites Gaudium et spes, Benedict XVI, and Keynes on the social purpose of property and extreme-need rights.
• The exhortation stresses concrete support for migrants and refugees—reception centers, border missions, and full integration—as integral to credible Gospel witness.
• It highlights the compounded vulnerability of abused and poor women, calls for a preferential option for the poor, and cautions against “mundanization” and elite-focused pastoral strategies.
• Signed on Oct. 4, the Feast of St. Francis, the text is presented by Vatican media as continuing Pope Francis’s social teaching; on publication day León met Chicago union leaders and shared a message with U.S. Catholic charities, and he told Bishop Mark Seitz the Church cannot be silent on immigrants.