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 they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.


Four Great Encyclicals: Labor- Education- Marriage- the Social Order (ed. 1900)

Pope Pius XI Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...