Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall not be]… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
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