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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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