The denial of God distorts freedom and devastates creation.

Benedict XVI: In my Encyclical Caritas in Veritate, I invited everyone to look to the deeper causes of this situation: in the last analysis, they are to be found in a current self-centered and materialistic way of thinking which fails to acknowledge the limitations inherent in every creature [] Twenty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the materialistic and atheistic regimes, which had for several decades dominated a part of this continent, was it not easy to assess the great harm that an economic system lacking any reference to the truth about man had done not only to the dignity and freedom of individuals and peoples but to nature itself, by polluting soil, water and ...