Manzoni's Osservazioni Sulla Morale Cattolica was quoted by Pope Pius
XI in his encyclical on Christian Education 'Divini Illius Magistri', 20:
"It is worthy of note how a layman, an excellent writer and at the
same time a profound and conscientious thinker, has been able to
understand well and express exactly this fundamental Catholic doctrine:
The Church does not say that morality belongs purely, in the sense of
exclusively, to her; but that it belongs wholly to her. She has never
maintained that outside her fold and apart from her teaching, man cannot
arrive at any moral truth; she has on the contrary more than once
condemned this opinion because it has appeared under more forms than
one. She does however say, has said, and will ever say, that because of
her institution by Jesus Christ, because of the Holy Ghost sent her in
His name by the Father, she alone possesses what she has had immediately
from God and can never lose, the whole of moral truth, omnem veritatem,
in which all individual moral truths are included, as well those which
man may learn by the help of reason, as those which form part of
revelation or which may be deduced from it"
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