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.
POPE LEO XIIIIt 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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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 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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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