It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
POPE LEO XIIINothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.
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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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 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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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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