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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Pope Leo XIII

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.
POPE LEO XIII

Authority Experience Neglect Teaching
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.
POPE LEO XIII

Himself Mindset Obedience Religious Teacher Togetherness
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 XIII

Capacity Community Difference Equality Myself People Result Strength
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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Animal Creation Man Nature Oneself Possession Right
Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Important War
Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Born Divorce Habit Leadership
Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Authority Nature Power Process Right
Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Belief Holy Ourselves Willing World
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 XIII

Authority Beginning God Human Law Marriage Myself Natural Original Purpose
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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Born Confidence Fight Greatness Myself World
To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Endurance Humanity Philosophy Suffering
We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Earth God Hold Place
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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Age Defend Man Present Rich Slave Work
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Enough Money Support Wage
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Experience Help Learning Man Strength Urge
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.
POPE LEO XIII

Fear History Law Open State

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