It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
POPE LEO XIIIYou 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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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 devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
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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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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.
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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 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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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