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In the teaching of the Catholic Church, a private revelation refers to visions and revelations from God to a specific Christian which have taken place since the completion of the New Testament. There are two types of revelations: the universal revelations, or public revelations which are contained in the Bible or were transmitted by the Church via Apostolic Tradition.

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  • In the teaching of the Catholic Church, a private revelation refers to visions and revelations from God to a specific Christian which have taken place since the completion of the New Testament. There are two types of revelations: the universal revelations, or public revelations which are contained in the Bible or were transmitted by the Church via Apostolic Tradition.
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  • In the teaching of the Catholic Church, a private revelation refers to visions and revelations from God to a specific Christian which have taken place since the completion of the New Testament. There are two types of revelations: the universal revelations, or public revelations which are contained in the Bible or were transmitted by the Church via Apostolic Tradition. Public revelations ended with the preaching of the Apostles and must be believed by all Catholics. Saint Thomas Aquinas specifically taught that all public revelations ended with the death of Saint John the Apostle. Private revelations may at times occur to Christians as a form of contemplation but the determination of the divinity of their source is often the subject of controversy. If and when the Church approves private revelations, it signifies that there is nothing in them contrary faith or good morals, and that they may be read without danger or even with profit; but the faithful are not obliged to believe them. Not all reports of private revelation are valid, even if they sound truly pious. For instance, the messages reported from God by Catalina Rivas were later found to correspond to exact pages of books written by others, and published instructional literature for Catholic seminarians. And reports of Our Lady of Surbiton claiming that the Virgin Mary appeared every day under a pine tree in England were flatly rejected by the Vatican as a fraud.
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