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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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ORTHOGENESIS

The theory that all human societies are in process of evolution, and that they follow in the same direction and go through the same stages everywhere, regardless of their differences in culture. (Etym. Greek orthos, upright, right + genesis, origin.)

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