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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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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