It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
POPE LEO XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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