Birth: March 2, 1810 Death: July 20, 1903
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..
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 pe….
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the ….
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely….
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor..
Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits..
Peace is built on the foundation of justice..
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.
Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They have u….
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..
Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee..
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 ….
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 righ….
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others..
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….
Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist..
The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on ear….
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..
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….
Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong….
Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have ove….