Yes, however, it is impossible to live a life of virtue when you are not free. That is why for example, private ownership of property is necessary. If a man is desperately trying to feed himself and his family week to week against tremendous opposition, he is not free. If someone else owns his home and his means of earning a living he is not free either. He who controls the assets controls the people. Human beings are not purely spiritual. We are also material and God has willed that we have the means necessary to take care of the material as well. When that is honoured, people are free to live a life of virtue. Fulton Sheen writes very well on this topic. V