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.
POPE LEO XIIIInequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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 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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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 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 Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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