To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
POPE LEO XIIIWe hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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 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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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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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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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 quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
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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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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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