Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
POPE LEO XIIIWe hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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