The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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.
POPE LEO XIIINot 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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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 XIIIIt 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.
POPE LEO XIIIOur own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
POPE LEO XIIIWages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
POPE LEO XIIIBooks of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
POPE LEO XIIIIt 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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
POPE LEO XIIIThere is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
POPE LEO XIIIYou 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 XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
POPE LEO XIIINothing is more important than to war on war.
POPE LEO XIIINo 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 XIIINothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
POPE LEO XIII