“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.”

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

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.

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.

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’

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.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

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.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.

Open your mind and let the pictures out

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

I’ve always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.