Birth: May 31, 1857 Death: February 10, 1939
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles o….
What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Wh….
Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to t….
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….
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied..
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its o….
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason….
This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the inscript….
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must a….
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism..
Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obe….
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most ….
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist..
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harm….
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership..
The family is more sacred than the state..
It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace ….
Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and acco….
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….
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….
The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see a….