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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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.
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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
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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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It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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