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.
POPE LEO XIIIIt 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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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 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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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