I just want to make a point, and that is be aware that there's a difference between divine revelation and what's called private revelation.

Divine revelation is bona fide, absolute, inspired revelation from God through the Holy Bible, through apostolic tradition.

And it is required. It's mandatory.

You can't say, well, I, you know,

I like all the oral tradition, but I don't like the Bible, so I'm not going to listen to what the Bible. You can't say that as a Catholic. We are obligated to pay attention to and to heed

and to believe in and obey divine revelation. That's God's message to you in what he wants you to know

and believe and do. But that's a different category from what's called private revelation. Now,

private revelation would indeed be binding on the person or persons to whom it is given.

So if the Lord were to give to, let's say, three shepherd children in the middle of nowhere

in Portugal in 1917 and say, the Blessed Virgin Mary appears to them and gives them messages,

and over the course of six months, let's just say, successive messages

and information and prophecies culminating in a mind-bending miracle where all the people who had

assembled who were thinking, well, this may indeed be the apparitions of Our Lady, and they were there and they were curious.

Some were doubtful.

Some were skeptics.

Some were scoffers.

Some were true blue believers.

You had a mix.

And they were there, let's just say on October the 17th, 1917, just to pull something out of the air.

And then there's this huge miracle that

70-some thousand people see, including atheists and freemasons and communists. And it's reported in

the newspapers as far away as Lisbon. I mean, that's an example of private revelation. And it

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