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 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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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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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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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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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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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