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.
POPE LEO XIIIDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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 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 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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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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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 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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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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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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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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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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