Pope Leo XIV signed this Saturday, October 4, the day the Catholic Church celebrates San Francisco de Asís, his papado’s first apostolic exhortation I love you (I have loved you), about the love of the poor.
The Holy Father signed the document this morning at 8:30 (local time) in the Private Library of the Apostolic Palace, in the presence of Mons. Edgar Peña Parra, a substitute for the general affairs of the Secretary of State, according to a statement from the press office of the press office of the press of the press of the Vatican.
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On the morning of Saturday, October 4, the Holy See Press Office announced that Pope Leo XIV signed his first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te, at 8:30 a.m. in the private library of the Apostolic Palace. pic.twitter.com/97lHo7g78o
– ACI press (@acprensa) October 4, 2025
This Pontifical Document will be presented at a press conference on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 11:30 (local time) in the Stampa Sala de la Santa See.
Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ will be present at the press conference, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development; Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Dicastery for the service of charity; and the religious Clémence, little sister of Jesus of the fraternity of Tre Fontane.
In remote connection, Brother Frédéric-Marie Le Méhauté, Provincial of the Minor Frailes of France/Belgium, Doctor of Theology, will also participate.
Loved you Remember the name of Pope Francis’s last encyclical Dilexit (He loved us), about the Sacred Heart of Jesuspublished in October 2024.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.