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.
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.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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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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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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.
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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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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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 hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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