Almsgiving Complements, Not Replaces, Public Responsibility

Joe does a deep dive into Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to share with you some of the things that struck me about Pope Leo’s new apostolic exportation, dilexi te. Now, I want to say a couple of things at the outset. First, a little bit about what the document is. Second, a little bit about what this is going to be. The first thing to know is that dilexi te is an apostolic exhortation. In other words, it’s not laying out church doctrine per se, the way a papal encyclical...