Overview

• Leo’s apostolic exhortation, titled “Dilexi te,” calls for confronting the structural causes of poverty and warns against rising elite wealth and exclusion.
• The 49–50 page text, partly prepared by Pope Francis and completed by Leo, affirms a preferential focus on the poor, migrants, and women facing violence.
• He rejects faith in unfettered markets to solve inequality and urges the Church and policymakers to change unjust economic systems.
• In separate remarks to journalists, Leo appealed for independent reporting, praised conflict correspondents in Gaza and Ukraine, and urged the release of jailed reporters.
• He cautioned that disinformation erodes social trust and questioned the concentration of power in tech firms, asking who controls AI systems and to what ends.