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Welcome.

My name is Dan Hugar, Research Associate at the Acton Institute,

and today I'm joined by two of my colleagues,

John Panero, Director of Research here at Acton,

and Caleb Whitmer, who's project manager at our Center for Social Flourishing.

Today we'll be talking about Pope Leo the 14th New Apostolic Exortation, Delixie Te,

which is I Have Loved You, which was released yesterday in address to all Christians on the

love of the Poor.

I want to begin our sort of roundtable discussion about this by reading paragraph 21,

which is kind of like it's more, it's in the beginning of the document,

but I think it gets to the heart of sort of what the document's concerned with

and gives listeners who maybe haven't had a chance to read the document a little bit of the flavor of what the document's concerned with and gives listeners who maybe haven't had a chance

to read the document a little bit of the flavor of what it is. And so this is paragraph 21.

And we will link to this, of course, in our show notes. At the beginning of his public ministry,

Jesus appeared in the synagogue of Nazareth, reading the scroll of the prophet Isaiah,

and applying to the prophet's words, and applying the prophet's words to himself,

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