It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
POPE LEO XIIITo suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
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