Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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 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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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