Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “It is an injustice, 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 (1810-1903)Source: The first principle against subsidiarity (giving away power) in the first ecumenical by Pope Leo XIII (and later recalled in papal encyclical 'Quadragesimo Anno' in 1931).