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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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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It 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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