Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
POPE LEO XIIIBooks of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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 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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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