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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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 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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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