It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
POPE LEO XIIINo human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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It 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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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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.
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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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