Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
POPE LEO XIIIInequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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