The protection of human beings with their needs, values and rights is a common goal of many legal systems. Nevertheless, the dignity of individuals is often violated, just as the integrity of the environment in which we live is unrecognized and trampled upon. In today's world in which capitalism generates winners and losers, rich and poors, prized possessions and waste, religious rights represent a reaction against such phenomena. Indeed, they reject strictly binary divisions in order to side with the environment, the last and the 'discarded' from societies. An example of this is the Catholic Church's support for the fight of the waste pickers. An emblematic case study that reminds us that even today 'the rejected stone' can become a 'cornerstone' and that even the last ones can change their own condition. In this way, a circular economy simultaneously of goods, people and souls takes shape. It also offers the law the opportunity to reaffirm those values of solidarity and inclusion that are the ground of the Europeanist dream, as well as of all the most modern advanced democracies.