We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
POPE LEO XIII
POPE LEO XIII
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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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Nothing is more important than to war on war.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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 XIIIPope Leo XIII The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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