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 XIIIInequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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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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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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 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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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