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https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20251004-dilexi-te.html 

Quick skim--very interesting.  I query the characterization of the Benedictine abbeys as utopian communities expressly raised against the 'logic of accumulation,' though.  Some were not exactly Savonarola/Shaker.  

There is something dangerous as well in the hypostasis of 'the poor,'  perhaps.  Not having a lot of things doesn't always affect who it is that one is.   And pace the 19th c. social scientists, it's not exactly a coherent or contiguous class.

But, that said, very laudable (co-authored!) document.  If you have a lot of things, realizing that some other people don't have a lot of things is a good first step.