Overview

• The 121-point Apostolic Exhortation, titled Dilexi te, sets the poor and the socially marginalised at the heart of the Church’s mission.
• The document defines poverty broadly to include material deprivation and social exclusion, naming migrants and women facing violence among those most at risk.
• Leo warns against a growing wealthy elite and a culture that discards people, calling Catholics to confront the structural causes of poverty.
• He writes that where the world sees threats the Church sees children and that where walls are built she builds bridges, language AFP reports is likely to be read as a veiled critique of U.S. immigration policy.
• He recalls the Alan Kurdi image to lament how migrant tragedies are treated as marginal news, and the Vatican says the text was initiated by Pope Francis.