In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over ….

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….

If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of….

Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her pe….

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated..

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, w….

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 them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke….

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms..

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 ….

This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and reli….

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….

This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and det….

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….

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….

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….

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….

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually..

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that indiv….

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possess….