Father Benedict J. Groeschel
This is a wise work what the Catholic Church calls “private revelations”: the various forms of revelation - including apparitions - experienced by people since Apostolic times. Father Groeschel explains how the Church regards them and how we are to discern and understand them. They, he writes, never contradict the teachings of the Church and can never contain new, post-Apostolic, beliefs. Many such revelations are not authentic and Father Groeschel makes the point that even those which are may be misinterpreted by the visionary or by others. He also suggests that truly private (individual, less than Lourdes-scale) revelation may be more common that we realize.