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.
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.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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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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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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