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 XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
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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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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 Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.
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