Published : 2026-05-19

Option for the Poor – Another Pause

Bogusław Drożdż



Abstract

At the beginning of October 2025, Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation, Dilexes te on the Love of the Poor was published. The document’s main theme is the poor, who are particularly recognized through the Church’s expression: the priority option for the poor. According to Pope Leo XIV, “the priority option for the poor generates an extraordinary renewal both in the Church and in society”. These two specific areas, the Church and society, become the domain for the realization of this option for the poor. The renewal of the Church through the actualization of the priority option for the poor is achieved primarily through love, while the renewal of human society, whether small or large, is achieved when justice is given voice. Catholic social teaching, of course, links love and justice, explicitly concluding that the minimum of love is justice. It is also true that without justice there is no love.

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exhortation Dilexi te, poor, option for the poor, love, justice, Church, society, renewal, reform


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Drożdż, B. (2026). Option for the Poor – Another Pause. Społeczeństwo, 36(1), 69–80. https://doi.org/10.58324/s.498




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