Pope Leo XIV

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"Allowing millions of human beings to live—and die—as victims of hunger is a collective failure, an ethical aberration, a historical fault," Pope Leo XIV said on World Food Day.

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) president Pierre Goudreault lauds Pope Leo XIV’s maiden apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”) as a “great contribution to the theology of revelation of God” and “the social teaching of the Church.”

Text of Pope Leo’s Oct. 10 address to a delegation of Aid to the Church in Need.

Power, possessions and rank do not satisfy the deep desire for real meaning in life, Pope Leo XIV said.

Making the first state visit of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV met Italian President Sergio Mattarella and spoke of common concerns, including war, migration, ecology and Italy's declining birthrate.

The apostolic exhortation "Dilexi Te" ("I Have Loved You") on the Church's love for the poor, "is Pope Leo's document. It is the magisterium of the Church," despite being begun begun by Pope Francis, said Cardinal Michael Czerny.

In his first apostolic exhortation, Pope Leo XIV has taken up the call of Pope Francis for Christians to see in the poor the very face of Christ — and to be a Church that "walks poor with the poor" in order to authentically live out the Gospel.

Jesus is always walking alongside everyone, no matter how mundane or precarious their journey, Pope Leo XIV said.

Pope Leo XIV's first papal trip abroad will be to Turkey and Lebanon Nov. 27-Dec. 2, the Vatican press office announced.