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 XIIIThe Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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