To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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 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 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 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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
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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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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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