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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.
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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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 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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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