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.
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 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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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