It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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 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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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