Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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 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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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