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 XIIIBooks 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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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 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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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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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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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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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