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.
POPE LEO XIIIInadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Catholics are born for combat.
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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 is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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 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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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.
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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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