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.
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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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 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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.
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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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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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