Material Naturalism

In Roman Catholic social justice teaching, an all-encompassing term for the belief of political and economic systems not based upon reverence for God. Examples of material naturalist systems include both capitalism and communism. Catholic social justice teaching holds that material naturalism inevitably tends toward injustice of one sort or another.

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