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.
POPE LEO XIIIIt 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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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 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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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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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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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