Catholics are born for combat.
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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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 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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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.
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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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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 Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.
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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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