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.
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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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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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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 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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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 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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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 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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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