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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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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 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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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