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.
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.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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The 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.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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