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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.

Pope Leo XIII

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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Burn Flame Heart Love Ourselves
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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Children Earth Family God Himself Religion
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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Authority Experience Neglect Teaching
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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Animal Creation Man Nature Oneself Possession Right
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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Body Human Man Myself
Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Born Divorce Habit Leadership
The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Forever God Oneself Religious
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Enough Money Support Wage
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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Defend Demand Man Myself Nature Quite Worship
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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Faith Hold Teaching True Yourself
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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Attack Book Defeat Foundation Myself Religion Writing
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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Benefit Convince Devote Society
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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Devotion God Myself Nation Present
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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Capacity Community Difference Equality Myself People Result Strength
The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Atheist Equality Myself Religion Tolerance
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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Authority Beginning God Human Law Marriage Myself Natural Original Purpose
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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Easy Impression Mindset Mystery Offering Present
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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Fear History Law Open State
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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Belong Demand Necessary Poor
Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Belief Holy Ourselves Willing World
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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Age Defend Man Present Rich Slave Work
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Experience Help Learning Man Strength Urge
Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Built Foundation Justice Peace
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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Human Husband Institution Marriage Myself Race Wife
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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Born Confidence Fight Greatness Myself World
We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Earth God Hold Place
Catholics are born for combat.
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Born Catholics Fight

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