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.
POPE LEO XIIIPeople 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.
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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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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.
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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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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
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