Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
POPE LEO XIIINothing is more important than to war on war.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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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 first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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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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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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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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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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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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