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.
POPE LEO XIIIIt 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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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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