[1] In Laetitiae sanctae, Leo XIII wrote that he was "convinced that the rosary, if devoutly used, is of benefit not only to the individual but society at large".

He sees a disdain of the simple life leading to jealousy, the trampling of rights, "and finally, the people, betrayed in their expectations, attack public order, and place themselves in conflict with those who are charged to maintain it".

"[5] Pope Leo offers, in contrast, the House of Nazareth, contemplated in the Joyful Mysteries as a model of domestic society.

But men of our day, [...] pursue the false goods of this world in such wise that the thought of their true Fatherland of enduring happiness is not only set aside, but, to their shame be it said, banished and entirely erased from their memory".

"[7] The "repugnance to suffering" found sympathy in those who supported the utopian life popular in 1893 in which "they dream of a chimeric civilization in which all that is unpleasant shall be removed, and all that is pleasant shall be supplied.