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.
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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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