Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
POPE LEO XIIIWe hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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 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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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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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 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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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