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.
POPE LEO XIIINo 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.
POPE LEO XIIIWe hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
POPE LEO XIIIInequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
POPE LEO XIIIGod is not only true, but Truth itself.
POPE LEO XIIICatholics are born for combat.
POPE LEO XIIIDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
POPE LEO XIIIThe twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
POPE LEO XIIIWages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
POPE LEO XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
POPE LEO XIIIPeople 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.
POPE LEO XIIIOur own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
POPE LEO XIIIMoreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
POPE LEO XIIIBut 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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