Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
POPE LEO XIIIWe 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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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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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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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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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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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 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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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