No 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.
POPE LEO XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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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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