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.
POPE LEO XIIIInadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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 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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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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