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.
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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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 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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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 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 equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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