Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.
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