The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
POPE LEO XIIIPeople 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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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’
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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