No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by Godโs authority from the beginning: โIncrease and multiply.
Pope Leo XIIINo one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.
Pope Leo XIIIIt 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 performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
Pope Leo XIII