To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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 not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
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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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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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