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Pure Nature Is Not the Same Thing as Human Nature
Catholic theology must be committed to a metaphysical realism or essentialism concerning the nature of the human being. This is an epistemological presupposition of any rigorous intellectual commitment to Christological orthodoxy, writes Pope Francis. The church's philosophical traditions and her natural law patrimony served to educate us to do just this, he adds.