Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
POPE LEO XIIICatholics are born for combat.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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 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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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 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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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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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 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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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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