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 XIIIIt 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 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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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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.
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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