God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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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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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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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 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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