Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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 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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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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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 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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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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