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.
POPE LEO XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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 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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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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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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.
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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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