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.
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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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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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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 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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Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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