It 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.
POPE LEO XIIIMoreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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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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Catholics are born for combat.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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 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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