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
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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