Because here is another thing of which people are often unaware, or about which they are misinformed. Rationality, or ‘reason’, has always been regarded by the Church as a gift that contributes to our comprehension of reality and of God (to the extent that any comprehension of God is possible). Even if, at times, those who represent the Church have failed to recognize the workings of that gift, or have seemed not to have prized and advanced those workings.