The challenge of the Enlightenment continues to destabilize the Church, causing it to doubt the substance and sources of its tradition and tempting it to resort to authoritarian reassertion on the one hand or to accommodation to the prevailing culture and private revelation on the other. (firstthings.com)
The communion of the saints means that the centrality of Scripture expressed in and through Christian Tradition to which all baptized believers belong stands over against all forms of private revelation. (firstthings.com)
For when a Christian goes to prayer with the expectation that God will reveal to him a personalized plan for his life, he presumes that God will make him the recipient of a miraculous private revelation. (firstthings.com)