Abstract
The recently named pope, Monsignor Bergoglio, has taken the name Francis, apparently after St. Francis of Assisi, William of Ockham defines Law as symbol of poverty. In this paper some clues are proposed to understand the decisive role of the so called “controversy over evangelical poverty” promoted by the Franciscans. It is studied the concept of Human Rights taking as starting point the Subjective Right. facultas or potestas, which is the conclusion by reduction to the absurd of the defense of the maximum poverty
privilege: possessing no rights.

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