Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas

Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these [human] authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors.
-St. Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica 1.1.8
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