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.
POPE LEO XIIIBut 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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.
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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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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 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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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