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 XIIIOnce the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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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 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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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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 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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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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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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Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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