Birth: May 31, 1857 Death: February 10, 1939
If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have ….
If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of….
The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and in yo….
Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him ….
Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a special and d….
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby the….
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shal….
This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and det….
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and hi….
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most ….
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and….
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist..
In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consol….
One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry.
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring….
In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract….
Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to th….
The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see a….
The family is more sacred than the state..
From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless pu….
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism..