I know there is no way to say this without is seeming to sound like an attack. But it is a simple observation that the Church benefits from poverty. They love being the hope and comfort of desperate people. It is much tougher work to
minister to people who are comfortable in the temporal world.
The church announcing poverty was gone would be like Jesse Jackson saying that race was not a big issue.
You confuse economic and spiritual poverty. The wealthy are often spiritually impoverishec, lonely. The economically poor need each other, borrow, comfort, help and sit with one another, so they are hard pressed but not lonely....and Christ is seen, experienced, in relationships, not watching dvds in a home movie room. The young rich man couldnt give up his safety and comfort to follow christ.....it is very hard unless you never had it to give
People want things of the church, so the church always needs money, but priests are not televangelists, even those with outside income from deceased parents.