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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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 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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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