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“30. Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted rights, the most important of which We have indicated above. Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible. It is therefore according to the dictates of reason that ultimately all material things should be ordained to man as a person, that through his mediation they may find their way to the Creator.”
― Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

tags: catholic, catholicism, economics

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“A man had better study what a human being is, because he's marrying one - assuming that merely being one has not been sufficient stimulus to that study.”
― Pius XI

tags: anthropology, marriage, marriage-advice

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“To teach is to learn twice.”
― Joseph Joubert

tags: inspirational

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“26. Above all other reality there exists one supreme Being: God, the omnipotent Creator of all things, the all-wise and just Judge of all men. This supreme reality, God, is the absolute condemnation of the impudent falsehoods of communism. In truth, it is not because men believe in God that He exists; rather because He exists do all men whose eyes are not deliberately closed to the truth believe in Him and pray to Him.”
― Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

tags: catholic, catholicism, communism, communism-vs-christianity, god, politics, religion

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“That false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little. turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion.”
― Pope Pius XI

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