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 XIIINot 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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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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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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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