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’
POPE LEO XIIIEvery 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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
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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.
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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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