Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
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Catholics are born for combat.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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 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 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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