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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.
Pope Leo XIII
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Pope Leo XIII
Age: 93 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 2
Died: 1903
Died: July 20
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Pope Leo XIII
Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci
Leo PP. XIII
Pope Léon XIII
Pope Lev XIII
papa Leone XIII
Pope Leone XIII
Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci
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For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn diversity, but it eagerly and willingly grants to each nation the right to keep and preserve the legitimate customs and traditions of its forbears.
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Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the entire scheme of laws and institutions to cause both public and individual well-being to develop spontaneously out of the very structure and administration of the state.
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The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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