What is "Christian"? What is the essence beyond any corruption?

[DoBW]

and beyond an "economy that kills"

?

[rampartd]

1. francis restored my Catholicism

leo is a great spokesman for our religion.

[demosincebirth]

2. Yes, he was kind and compassionate.

[ancianita]

3. "Dilexi Te," the first magisterial document by Leo XIV, is his extension of Pope Francis' last unfinished document...

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/10/10/reflections-on-dilexi-te-the-first-magisterial-document-of-leo-xivs-papacy/

... critics of this document who view it as expressive of some kind of George Soros-style globalist agenda in league with the “Davos elites” are engaging in unvarnished alarmist nonsense. It is nothing of the sort, as can be easily seen in the fact that a good 60% of the text is dominated by a thick retelling of the lives of the many saints in the Church’s history who have championed the cause of the poor, the sick, the immigrant, the socially marginalized, and the imprisoned. Pope Leo could not be clearer that the bonds of Christian charity are not reducible to mere philanthropy and that the Church is not just another humanitarian aid agency.

Similarly, there is too much overthinking about the text regarding the topic of free markets. Nowhere in the text does the Pope advocate for a socialist answer to economic inequality. It is true that he criticizes “free markets”, but it is also abundantly clear that when read charitably and in full context, those remarks are aimed at a particular kind of free market capitalism. It is targeted at those forms of free market economics that view the invisible hand of the market as existing in a zone of amoral indifference to human need, the universal destination of goods, or the higher moral purposes that must accompany wealth accumulation lest it devolve into a bestial social Darwinism.

One may say that this is a fiction of the pope’s imagination and that no such robber baron capitalism exists anymore, but they would be wrong. Gone are the economic oligarchs of oil, coal, railroads, and shipping, and in their place we have the oligarchs of our new digital paradigm of computer tech, military weaponry, and financial and commodity speculation.

Seen in this light, everything that Pope Leo says in the text about the shortcomings of specific kinds of free market economies is completely in line with all previous papal social teachings, stretching from Leo XIII and on down through Francis. Absolutely nothing in Delexi Te is out of step with previous papal teaching on the potential pitfalls of unbridled free market economies...