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Since when do RC Catholics venerate rationality?
ETA: I have tried and failed to find, through Google, any mention of a special connection between RC belief and rationality. Possibly they accept rationality, but that they venerate it is a much stronger claim. Could someone please give a ref and not just downvote?
You might read G.K. Chesterton's story, "The Blue Cross." (http://www.literaturepage.com/read/chesterton-innocence-of-father-brown-1.html)
Or for just one relevant passage from the story, see http://www.literaturepage.com/read/chesterton-innocence-of-father-brown-17.html.
This sort of attitude is fairly common in the Catholic Church and seems a lot like veneration, although that could depend on your definition.
As far as I could make out from just that chapter, that story is about a time traveler observing a robber masquerading as priest and giving an ironic quotation. I'd like some more solid and official evidence tying Catholic dogma to rationality.
As far as I can make out, you didn't understand the story.
Anyway this would be more official: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_15101998_fides-et-ratio_en.html
Of course it's too long to read, and anyway as I said it's a question of interpretation.