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.
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.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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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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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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