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.
POPE LEO XIIIIt 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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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 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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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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 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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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