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.
POPE LEO XIIIGod is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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 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 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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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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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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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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