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 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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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 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 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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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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 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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Catholics are born for combat.
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