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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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