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.
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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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 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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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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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 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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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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