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.
POPE LEO XIIIInadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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