Claire Giangrave offers a succinct and comprehensive guide to Pope Leo's "I Have Loved You," noting that "Leo has been increasingly vocal in his appeals to welcome the stranger, especially in his native United States, where the Trump administration is carrying out aggressive deportation policies."

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https://www.npr.org/2025/10/09/nx-s1-5567702/pope-leo-issues-new-document-on-poverty

"The American pope does not shrink from taking up his Argentine predecessor's challenge. He actually advances it."

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"Those who predicted that Pope Leo XIV would slow or even reverse his Jesuit predecessor's reformagenda seem to have got it spectacularly wrong. ...

Those who expected Leo to soften or retreat from Francis's insistence on advocating for a number of social issues as being part and parcel of the Church's mission to preach the gospel will be disappointed in this new document."

~ Robert Mickens

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https://www.ucanews.com/news/a-low-key-pontificate-starts-to-shift-gears/110587