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.
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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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