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.
POPE LEO XIIIOnce the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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 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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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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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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