Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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 twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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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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