Birth: March 2, 1810 Death: July 20, 1903
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….
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being….
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been l….
It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power..
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values his Catholic….
Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other here….
Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and ….
O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none rece….
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..
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..
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….
The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of natur….
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..
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….
God is not only true, but Truth itself..
It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to b….
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….
Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church and of nations are grea….
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….
The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the roo….