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 XIIIDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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.
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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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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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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 devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
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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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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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