The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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’
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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