Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
POPE LEO XIIIIt is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.
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Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
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The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.
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People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
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Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
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But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.
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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
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The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.
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The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.
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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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