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.
POPE LEO XIIIBut 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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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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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 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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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The 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.
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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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Not 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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