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Pope Leo: Mass Migration Is Providential

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Rod Dreher
Oct 10, 2025
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Yesterday Pope Leo issued an apostolic exhortation, titled Dilexi te (“I Have Loved You”), which is mostly about telling Catholics to be kind to the poor. Nothing new or objectionable about that. Then there is this paragraph about migrants:

75. The Church’s tradition of working …

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