About this episode

Learning someone's name is a small act, but it belongs in a much larger question: how do we love our neighbors in practice? Purposely Catholic discusses Dilexi te, Pope Leo XIV's apostolic exhortation on love for the poor, with attention to taking action and meeting people personally.

We consider the Church's preferential option for the poor and ask how people living in poverty can evangelize us. The discussion also takes up mercy and justice, the crosses people carry, and what it means to be a Church for the poor. If you're looking for a starting point for reading the document, these questions bring its subject close to everyday encounters.

In this episode

  • Putting love of neighbor into action
  • Beginning an encounter by asking someone's name
  • How the poor can evangelize us
  • The relationship between mercy and justice
  • What it means to be a Church for the poor

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