Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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 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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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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