SolitaryWalker
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Yes, you are right. Roman Catholics do believe in miracles. And yes they do believe God has revealed himself to us. However they also believe that revelation must be subject to reason.
Of course how well they do this is open to question.
My point is that Catholics believe that reason and faith both should play a role in their religious practices, however, faith serves a much more significant purpose. In other words, Catholics think that to some degree religious views must be questioned; yet in many other cases they must be accepted as correct solely on authority or by virtue of revelation. The latter approach (faith or acceptance of views on authority) appears to be much more pronounced than the former )or the practice of using reason to question the religious teachings).