Fr. Juan Antonio Cabrera Montero, OSA Leo XIV’s first encyclical, recently published, represents a further step in the development of the Church’s social doctrine, inaugurated 135 years ago by Leo XIII. The Holy Father’s desire is that Christians become “weavers of hope in our world, sharing what we are and what we have, so that the presence of Jesus may grow among us and his Kingdom may take shape” (n. 245). Its distinctly anthropological and social character does not preclu