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.
POPE LEO XIIIOnce the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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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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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.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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