Birth: March 2, 1810 Death: July 20, 1903
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….
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being….
No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask ….
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..
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 death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiasti….
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste ….
For when men know they are working on what belongs to them, they work with far greater eagerness and diligence. Nay, in a word, they learn to love th….
These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have la….
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies..
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively th….
We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large..
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, com….
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 divers….
To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of following their teaching, of submit….
Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist..
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner..
Nothing is more important than to war on war..
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..
Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the c….